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tragedy
 
Noun tragedy has 2 senses
  1. calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
    --1 is a kind of misfortune, bad luck
    --1 has particulars:
     act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty; apocalypse; famine; kiss of death; meltdown; plague; visitation
  2. tragedy - drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
    --2 is a kind of     drama
    Antonyms: comedy
    --2 has particulars: tragicomedy
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