agonizing vs tragic

agonizing

adj
  • Causing physical or mental agony. 

noun
  • The act of one who agonizes. 

tragic

adj
  • Causing great sadness or suffering. 

  • Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness. 

  • Having been the victim of a tragedy. 

  • Relating to tragedy in a literary work. 

noun
  • An obsessive fan, a superfan 

How often have the words agonizing and tragic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )