Synonyms of tragic

1 Syllable
sad, grim, dire
2 Syllables
bummed, fatal, mournful, grievous, painful, ruinous, goner, forlorn, hapless, dreadful, woeful, awful, deadly, shocking, theatric, deathly, wretched, crushing
3 Syllables
pitiable, pitiful, anguished, terrible, adverse, heart-rending, dramatic, theatrical, sorrowful, harrowing, pathetic, heartbreaking, heartrending, appalling, fateful, godawful, ill-fated, ill-starred, unhappy, unlucky, disastrous, hopeless, doleful
4 Syllables
cataclysmic, lamentable, desolate, deplorable, acheronian, cataclysmal, tragicomic, miserable, destructive, calamitous, catastrophal, catastrophic
5 Syllables
irremediable, unfortunate