tristful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tristful
1485–95; obsolete trist sad, gloomy (< Old French triste < Latin tristis ) + -ful
Example Sentences
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They took me to the county jail My tristful Kate pursuing, And all the way she sobb’d and cried ‘Oh! what have I been doing?’
From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various
Heaven's face doth glow, Yea, this solidity and compound mass With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
Suzette had tristful eyes when they rested upon this cemetery.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Late when the sumach's red was dulled and worn, And fainter grew the trite and troublous word Of tristful cricket, that replaced the bird, I sought the slope, and found a waste forlorn.
From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Helen Gray Cone
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