triste
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of triste
from French
Example Sentences
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“Que triste que no se vacunan,” my dad said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
My dog may not speak Italian, but she totally knows I’m feeling triste.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2020
Then he added, "or, as the French would put it, triste."
From Time Magazine Archive
Still and all, the mood of the evening is impeccably sustained and, rather surprisingly, it is not so much jolly and summery as triste and autumnal.
From Time Magazine Archive
When we were old enough to leave school, our life at home, in a remote country grange, with little society to be had in the neighbourhood, was dull and triste in the extreme.
From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela
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