tristful
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of tristful
1485–95; obsolete trist sad, gloomy (< Old French triste < Latin tristis ) + -ful
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A marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx, This tristful brooklet, when it has descended Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But if I here could see the tristful soul Of Guido, or Alessandro, or their brother, For Branda's fount I would not give the sight.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It ran as follows: showing that Oberlus was at least an accomplished writer, and no mere boor; and what is more, was capable of the most tristful eloquence.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
Ye have made me, ye have made me Querulous of you, that care not, Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not Say to what ye have betrayed me.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
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