Tristful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Tristful is an adjective meaning (archaic) Sad, melancholic.
Meaning
(archaic) Sad, melancholic.
Example Sentences
Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.
[…] So shine thy tristfull light With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright The world:
[…] Heaven’s face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
A wistful look in your mirror, and an air of tristful languor in public, and a sense of being deeper than you thought you were, if you ever thought about it at all.
Word Forms
- tristeful
Synonyms for tristful
Depending on context, synonyms include miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include visage, tristeful, trist, triste, sadful, plaintive.
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