Tragically

adv

adv ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a tragic manner.

    "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)."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a tragic manner; with tragic consequences wordnet

Synonyms

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dreadfullygrievouslygrimlyhideouslyhorriblyhorridly

Example

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"Sir Peter Blake was tragically killed by pirates on the Amazon river in 2001 as he was on a mission to monitor environment change."

Etymology

From tragic + -ally.

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