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
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone.
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 Angela Brazil
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