Definitions for "Tragedy"
A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
a play, or the dramatic form it represents, in which the leading character suffers intense conflicts and a wretched fate, often because of some weakness. any literary work that presents a somber or serious theme in a story that leads to an unfortunate, if not catastrophic, conclusion, as Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Keywords:  vanitas, utopia
utopia vanitas
a catastrophic event in which there is no element of human control
a horrific event, usually guided there by hubris, which is absolutely unpreventable
Keywords:  jessica, lange, auger, caught, wife
a film in which Jessica Lange, as a farm wife, gets her arm caught in a grain auger
a story of human actions producing exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man of high estate
a story about the loss of happiness, bliss, or idealized existence.
Keywords:  testament, bush, response
a testament to the response of Bush and co
a representation of an action that is whole and comp
a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain
Keywords:  accident, nature, act
an accident or an act of nature
Keywords:  god, act
an act of God