tragically


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).
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