Damaging
Tragic
Tragic adjective - Of a kind to cause great distress.
Damaging and tragic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Damaging" instead an adjective "Tragic".
Nearby Words: tragically, tragical
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- Her choices at the end leading to equally damaging and tragic consequences: a little boy starving to death only miles and days from rescue thanks to a psychotic townsperson's insane agenda.
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While not damaging to his legacy, Irwin's tragic death was something of a subversion of the trope, as he was killed by a stingray, which isn't even considered that dangerous among sea creatures.
Source: Awesome Aussie
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Tragic and Damaging. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/damaging/tragic
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