Help with a definition

[Alina Israeli]

Трагичный relates to events: трагичная  
ситуация, it could be said about day-to-day events.
Трагический (I think) either leads or comes out of a tragic  
situation: трагическое выражение лица,  
вспоминается один трагический случай.
Трагедийный is related to трагедия, in a tragedy or  
like in a tragedy:

Агибенин устроил страшный трагедийный  
шум под окнами Елены Вяземской и  
угрожал, задрав голову вверх,  
застрелиться. [Эдуард Лимонов. У нас  
была Великая Эпоха (1987)]
Трагедийная героиня, безусловно,  
Виктория Карасева ―  
двадцатисемилетняя девица с  
тяжеловатой красотой провинциальной  
премьерши. [Евгения Пищикова.  
Пятиэтажная Россия (2007) // «Русская  
Жизнь», 2008]


On Dec 13, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Helena Calogeridis wrote:

> Hi all:
> One of my German profs is using a Russian text for his research and  
> stumbled over the following word: трагедийный (as opposed  
> to трагический or трагичный).
> A number of print and online dictionaries was consulted without much  
> success, when trying to distinguish among the meanings of  
> “tragic”. Perhaps a Russian native speaker might help us best  
> with these nuances.
> Thank you in advance for any help with this. Helena
>
> Helena Calogeridis
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Alina Israeli
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