tragically

2 definitions • 4 examples

in a way that is very sad, and often involving death and suffering:

She died tragically young.

Tragically, the side-effects of the drug were not discovered until many people had been seriously damaged by it.

in a way that relates to tragedy (= a type of play or story that is about death or suffering):

He is the most soulful and tragically complex character in the story.

His failed efforts to kill his lover's husband make him comically pathetic rather than tragically heroic.