tragically

English

Etymology

From tragic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

tragically (comparative more tragically, superlative most tragically)

1. In a tragic manner.
   • 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60:

     The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).

Translations

in a tragic manner

• Catalan: tràgicament (ca)
• French: tragiquement (fr)
• Galician: traxicamente
• Italian: tragicamente (it)
• Portuguese: tragicamente
• Spanish: trágicamente