tragedy vs plague

plague vs tragedy

tragedy and plague both are nouns.

tragedy is not a verb while plague is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tragedy	Yes	No	No	No
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plague is a hyponym of tragedy; that is, plague is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tragedy:

tragedy: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
plague: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

Other hyponyms of tragedy include act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major, apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, visitation, tidal wave, tsunami.

tragedy (noun)	plague (noun)
drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity	an annoyance
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune	any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
	a swarm of insects that attack plants
	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate

tragedy (verb)	plague (verb)
	annoy continually or chronically
	cause to suffer a blight

Difference between tragedy and plague

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