tragic

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Adjective[change]

Positive
tragic

Comparative
more tragic

Superlative
most tragic

  1. When an event is tragic, it is causing a lot of pain and suffering for those involved in that event. We would call such event a tragedy as well.
    Terrorists are people who want to make tragic events happen and make the innocent people suffer so as to tell the government something.