suicidal vs tragic

suicidal

adj
  • Pertaining to suicide. 

  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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 suicidal and tragic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )