What does tristful mean?
Tristful means (archaic) Sad, melancholic..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) Sad, melancholic..
Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.
1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184, I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]
[…] Heaven’s face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
[…] So shine thy tristfull light With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright The world:
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.
Use tristful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tristful means (archaic) Sad, melancholic..
Common synonyms include miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.
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