TRAGEDY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for TRAGEDY?

Need another word that means the same as “tragedy”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “tragedy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Tragedy” are: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, devastation, misfortune, misadventure, mishap, reverse, vicissitude, setback, trial, tribulation, affliction, blight, injury, adversity, drama, play

Tragedy as a Noun

Definitions of "Tragedy" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tragedy” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity.
• A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
• An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
• The dramatic genre represented by tragedies.
• An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.

Synonyms of "Tragedy" as a noun (19 Words)

adversity	A difficult or unpleasant situation. Resilience in the face of adversity.
affliction	A condition of suffering or distress due to ill health. A crippling affliction of the nervous system.
blight	A state or condition being blighted. The city s high rise social housing had become synonymous with urban blight.
calamity	An event resulting in great loss and misfortune. Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity.
cataclysm	A sudden violent change in the earth’s surface. The cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
catastrophe	Something very unfortunate or unsuccessful. An environmental catastrophe.
devastation	The feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed. Her departure left him in utter devastation.
disaster	A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life. Lunch had turned out to be a total disaster.
drama	A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage. A gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem.
injury	An instance of being injured. An ankle injury.
misadventure	An unfortunate incident; a mishap. The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
misfortune	Unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event. The project was dogged by misfortune.
mishap	An unlucky accident. Although there were a few minor mishaps none of the pancakes stuck to the ceiling.
play	In games or plays or other performances the time during which play proceeds. The ball was put in play.
reverse	Reverse gear on a motor vehicle the position of a gear lever or selector corresponding to this. He didn t feel homesick quite the reverse.
setback	The distance by which a building or part of a building is set back from the property line. They had to get permission to overlap the city s setback lines.
trial	Trying something to find out about it. The newspaper accounts of the trial.
tribulation	A state of great trouble or suffering. His time of tribulation was just beginning.
vicissitude	A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something. Her husband s sharp vicissitudes of fortune.

Usage Examples of "Tragedy" as a noun

• Shakespeare's tragedies.
• Greek tragedy.
• A tragedy that killed 95 people.
• His life had been plagued by tragedy.

Associations of "Tragedy" (30 Words)

adversity	A stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event. Debt ridden farmers struggling with adversity.
atrocious	Exceptionally bad or displeasing. Atrocious taste.
befall	Become of; happen to. He promised that no harm would befall her.
beset	Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems. The zebra was beset by leopards.
betide	Happen. She was trembling with fear lest worse might betide her.
blow	Free of obstruction by blowing air through. A rear tyre had blown.
calamity	An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity.
cataclysm	An event resulting in great loss and misfortune. The cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
catastrophe	A sudden violent change in the earth’s surface. An environmental catastrophe.
despondency	Low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection. An air of despondency.
disaster	Denoting a genre of films that use natural or accidental catastrophe as the mainspring of plot and setting. A disaster movie.
distressed	Suffering severe physical strain or distress. The distressed relatives of his victims.
dreadful	Exceptionally bad or displeasing. I feel dreadful I hate myself.
dystopia	A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror.
gloom	A state of depression or despondency. He struck a match to dispel the gloom.
grief	Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death. She was overcome with grief.
heartache	Emotional anguish or grief, typically caused by the loss or absence of someone loved. The familiar pang of heartache.
horrible	Provoking horror- Winston Churchill. War is beyond all words horrible.
horrifying	Causing horror; extremely shocking. An alarming even horrifying picture.
misadventure	Death caused by a person accidentally while performing a legal act without negligence or intent to harm. The petty misdemeanours and misadventures of childhood.
mischance	An instance of misfortune. Innumerable mischances might ruin the enterprise.
misfortune	An unfortunate condition or event. Never laugh at other people s misfortunes.
mourn	Observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one. Publishers mourned declining sales of hardback fiction.
sadly	With sadness; in a sad manner. He was sadly neglected.
sadness	Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. A source of great sadness.
sorrow	An event or circumstance that causes sorrow. A woman had cried all night sorrowing over the death of her husband.
suffering	Psychological suffering. Weapons that cause unnecessary suffering.
terrible	Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact. What a terrible mess.
woe	Intense mournfulness. To add to his woes customers have been spending less.
worst	The least favorable outcome. Manufacturing and mining are the industries worst affected by falling employment.