TRAGICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tragically mean? 

• TRAGICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb TRAGICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a tragic manner; with tragic consequences

  Familiarity information: TRAGICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAGICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tragic manner; with tragic consequences

Context example:

tragically, she contracted AIDS

Pertainym:

tragic (very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction)

 Context examples 

SIR JAMES OVINGTON’S carriage was waiting without, and in it the Avon family, so tragically separated and so strangely re-united, were borne away to the squire’s hospitable home.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, "Oh, do somebody go down quick! John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Tragically, the disasters claimed a total of 138 lives: • 1 drought (affected multiple areas);
• 1 wildfire (affected multiple areas); • 4 inland floods;
• 8 severe storms; and
• 1 hurricane (Matthew).

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

Aren't we proud of those two words, and don't we like to say them? interrupted Jo, addressing the fire in her turn, and watching with delight the happy light it seemed to kindle in the eyes that had been so tragically gloomy when she saw them last.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She never alluded to a certain person, but she thought of him a good deal, dreamed dreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her sister's desk for stamps, found a bit of paper scribbled over with the words, 'Mrs. John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had hastened the evil day for her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

She turned her head as there was a light, dignified knocking at the front door. I went out and opened it. Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)