ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tristness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Tristness is a noun meaning Alternative form of tristeness.

Meaning

Alternative form of tristeness.

Example Sentences

Notwithstanding the tristness of the town, there are many visitors during the Summer who come for quiet and economy.
Beneath the snowy turban, which adorns her head, what pathos seems to dress her brows; what silent, yet what speaking, tristness, highly touched!
All this time, Colonel Ireton was making a forced march across the Darling Range, that low cordillera unsurpassable in tristness, barrenness and steepness.
Kate was delighted with this proposal, and the business of packing and preparing seemed to dispel much of the tristness which had possessed her of late, and Wycherly was happy again.

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