Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tragicize

/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tragi-cize
IPA: /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.

Obsolete

verb

To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.

Example Sentences

"How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep."
"I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized."
"Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized, like the Rosenbergs […]."

Etymology

From tragic + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tragic

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

tragicizes (present, singular) tragicizing (participle, present) tragicized (participle, past) tragicized (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce tragicize?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/.
What does tragicize mean?: To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.
Where does tragicize come from?: From tragic + -ize.

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