Tragedy Synonyms and Antonyms

trăjĭ-dē
Unhappy fate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lot
  2. bad fortune
  3. misfortune
  4. doom
  5. bad end
  6. no good end
Antonyms:
  1. success
  2. happiness
  3. advantage
  4. fortune
  5. blessing
  6. boon
  7. victory
A tragic event or series of events
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. catastrophe
  2. disaster
  3. calamity
  4. adversity
  5. catharsis
  6. misfortune
  7. hardship
  8. cataclysm
  9. affliction
  10. accident
  11. struggle
  12. misadventure
  13. anagnorisis
  14. curse
  15. blight
  16. humiliation
  17. wreck
  18. doom
  19. failure
  20. drama
  21. one blow after another
  22. hamartia
  23. hard knocks
  24. hubris
  25. mishap
  26. nemesis
  27. peripeteia
  28. sorrow
Antonyms:
  1. success
  2. prosperity
  3. good-fortune
  4. comedy
  5. satire
  6. burlesque
An artistic creation climaxed by catastrophe
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. novel
  2. play
  3. tragic poem
  4. melodrama
  5. tragic drama
  6. Elizabethan tragedy
  7. Greek tragedy
  8. French classic tragedy
Antonyms:
  1. comedy
  2. satire
  3. burlesque
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. calamitous
  2. cothurnal
  3. deplorable
  4. lamentable
  5. tragic
  6. tragical
  7. woeful

Words Related to Tragedy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Tragedy Sentence Examples

  • For every tragedy, there is a possible happy ending.

  • As we move toward that future, it is a great tragedy that the experiences of all the people of the past are lost to us.

  • A Latin tragedy on her fate is attributed, though wrongly, to Seneca.

  • It was as if I hadn't had time to come to grips with that tragedy with the world wind swirling around me.

  • That this tragedy should have been reprinted in 1714 and acted in 1745 only shows that the public, as is often the case, had an eye to the catastrophe rather than to the development of the action.

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