Answer:

tragic

Answer	Crossword Clue
TRAGIC	Disastrous
TRAGIC	Dreadful
TRAGIC	Like a Sophocles play

TRAGIC	Terribly sad
TRAGIC	Like certain flaws
TRAGIC	Star-crossed
TRAGIC	Like "Macbeth"
TRAGIC	Like many Aeschylus works
TRAGIC	Ill-fated
TRAGIC	Like "Romeo and Juliet"
TRAGIC	Like "King Lear"

TRAGIC	Calamitous
TRAGIC	Ending unhappily, as a play
TRAGIC	Like some flaws
TRAGIC	Lamentable
TRAGIC	Like "Hamlet"
TRAGIC	Like Lear
TRAGIC	Melancholy
TRAGIC	Very unfortunate

TRAGIC	Like many Shakespeare plays
TRAGIC	More than unfortunate
TRAGIC	Calamitous.
TRAGIC	Too sad.
TRAGIC	Describing Melpomene's sphere.
TRAGIC	Dire.
TRAGIC	Sad indeed.
TRAGIC	Very sad.

TRAGIC	Ruinous.
TRAGIC	Poignant
TRAGIC	Deplorable
TRAGIC	Dire
TRAGIC	Like "King Lear," e.g.
TRAGIC	Truly sad
TRAGIC	Like "Othello"
TRAGIC	Like "Aida"

TRAGIC	Heartbreaking
TRAGIC	Like some irony
TRAGIC	"How sad"
TRAGIC	No Doubt's "Kingdom"
TRAGIC	Like the ending of "Romeo and Juliet"