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单词 tragically
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tragicallyadv.

Brit. /ˈtradʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈtrædʒək(ə)li/
Forms: 1500s tragecally, 1500s tragicallie, 1500s– tragically.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tragical adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < tragical adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare classical Latin tragicē, ancient Greek τραγικῶς, Middle French, French tragiquement (1549).
1. In a way that involves or causes great suffering; disastrously, catastrophically; devastatingly, distressingly. Also in weakened use.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > calamitously
tragically1561
disastrously1596
fatally1663
calamitously1794
1561 G. North tr. Descr. Swedland sig. C.i Birgerius succeded Magnus and tragecally enioyed the crowne.
1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 690 Our voyage..ended tragically.
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 384 This King that tragically raigned, being first deposed..tragically ended.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xlii As his provocations were great, he has reveng'd them Tragically.
1757 C. Bradbury Cabinet of Jewels 32 The Representation of these Things in a Play ended the Life of so great a Man so tragically.
1836 W. F. Cumming Jrnl. 18 Nov. in Notes Wanderer (1839) I. ii. 227 While about leaving Boulac this forenoon, I saw a fight between two Arab lads which ended somewhat tragically.
1885 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/2 Their predictions have been only too tragically fulfilled.
1960 Life 18 July 31/1 Only a few days after winning independence from Belgium, the Republic of the Congo suddenly and tragically came unstuck.
1999 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 June 35/1 I..twice hung up a ringing Ticketmaster line, tragically costing me World Series tickets.
2006 Hotdog Nov. 99/3 He was tragically killed when he veered off the road and plunged 130ft into the Pacific Ocean.
2. With tragic feeling or expression; sorrowfully; (formerly also) †with a vehement outcry (obsolete). Now frequently hyperbolic. Sometimes overlapping with sense 3.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb]
ungladly?c1225
wanlyc1275
dolefullyc1290
ruefullya1300
elengelyc1305
heavisomelya1382
lumpishlyc1450
tristily?c1450
dowlyc1540
unjoyfully1553
tragically1567
dully1600
tragicly1604
heartlessly1606
unjovially1607
dejectedly1611
dejectly1611
disconsolately1614
dumpishly1621
uncheerfullya1628
dolorously1638
mopishly1651
despondingly1656
despondentlya1677
unhappily1688
dismally1709
gloomily1727
grumly1727
joylessly1766
mopingly1788
sombrously1796
glumly1805
malagrugrously1818
funerally1829
broodingly1834
unenjoyingly1844
downheartedly1847
unblissfully1849
droopingly1852
dreichly1853
sombrely1860
dispiritedly1864
glumpily1865
pleasurelessly1873
depressedly1880
chapfallenly1883
sighfully1900
bleakly1938
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adverb]
sorelyc888
yomerlya1000
yomerea1250
ruthlya1400
mourninglya1425
sorrowinglya1425
lamentably1470
in sackcloth and ashes1526
tragically1567
plaintively1593
lamentinglyc1610
bemoaningly1646
complainingly1816
deploringly1847
sighfully1900
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adverb] > in other specific style
naturally1557
licentiously1561
tragically1567
cosily1721
mock-heroically1846
naturalistically1864
declamatorily1898
1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse f. 179v What cause haue ye, why ye should so tragically crie out vpon vs therefore?
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 25 Paul might..tragically have cried out against them: O ungracious world.
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H3 A discontented Scholler..tragicallie exclaiming vpon his partial-eid fortune.
1663 H. P. Cressy Roman-Catholick Doctr. xxiii. 288 He tragically exclaim'd, that he abhorred the Appellation of Vniversal Bishop.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 493 Many complain and cry out very tragically of the Wretchedness of their Hearts.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 116 He tragically lamented the cruel murder of Constans.
1815 J. Taylor Display xii. 145 She flew down stairs, and throwing herself tragically into the chair,..ordered to be taken to Colonel Harrison's.
1863 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 179/2 ‘A good many of that sort of craft founder in these waters, as I know to my sorrow’; and, sighing tragically, Mr. Joe turned to help Debby from her perch.
1919 L. F. Perkins Cornelia vii. 110 The man, absorbed in his misery and gazing tragically upward, had not noticed her.
1981 M. E. Robertson After Freud i. 3 ‘Everybody else has shoes,’ Isabel says tragically, ‘and our feet get cold.’
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Dec. (Books section) 1 ‘It's time to clear out some of your old toys,’ I said firmly to my child early last December. ‘No!’ she cried, tragically.
3.
a. In the style of a tragic actor; in a dignified, elevated, or pompous manner; grandly, grandiloquently, rhetorically. Now rare. Sometimes overlapping with sense 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] > loftily or grandiloquently
loftily1548
loftly1598
tragically1602
magnificently1630
sublimely1631
grandiloquently1821
soundingly1843
magniloquently1849
largely1857
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. i. sig. A3v Hast thou buskins on, Luscus, that thou swear'st so tragically and high? View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Proclus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 548 Having praised the Three Gods, [he] Tragically or Affectedly called them, the Grandfather, the Son, and the Nephew.
1794 G. Wakefield Exam. Paine's Age of Reason 48 Your notion of redemption, upon which you so largely expatiate and so tragically declaim.., is the notion derived probably from your quaker father.
1903 L. C. Alexander Wife Sealers xix. 187 She turned tragically, looked at them both with a withering glance, and in a fine rich contralto summarised her opinion of them.
b. In the style of tragic drama or literature; in a manner befitting a tragedy.
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1611 R. Brathwait Sonnets Ep. Ded. in Golden Fleece sig. E6v Pyndarus fountaines lie open as well to Ouid, to write lasciuiously, as to Sophocles to write tragically.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xviii. 129 Where shall I be able to finde tearmes, and Inke black enough, to expresse, and write tragically enough, the cruel, and dismal effects, of this sanguinary, and horrible War?
1787 Retrospect. Portraits in Short Rev. 30 The ‘strange scene’ he has so tragically written.
1823 London Lit. Gaz. 30 Aug. 548/1 The narrative carries the reader through many scenes of an affecting description, and the conclusion is tragically fine.
1950 C. Leech Shakespeare's Trag. i. 19 In seventeenth-century France, Racine could write tragically.
1986 E. Wright Poetry Protest under Franco iii. 73 Hidalgo's original intention was to write tragically and apocalyptically about those who died in the Civil War.
2003 D. Evans in P. Chabot & G. Hottois Les Philosophes et la Technique 40 To become a tragedian, you must write tragically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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