tragic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tragic/ˈtraʤɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 extremely distressing or sad.

  ■ suffering extreme distress or sadness.

• 2 relating to tragedy in a literary work.

– derivatives
tragical adjective,
tragically adverb.

– origin C16: from Fr. tragique, via L. from Gk tragikos, from tragos ‘goat’, but assoc. with tragōidia (see tragedy).