triste en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈtɹɪst/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English trist, triste (-e form is less common), borrowed from Old French trist, triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”). Re-borrowed late 18c. (as “dull, uninteresting”) as a French word in English and often spelled triste.
Meanings
-
(rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
He said, he wanted them to take us to Heraclea that we might be educated so that we would be always good, and could be present with him and mamma although absent in body, which would keep them from feeling sad and lonely. But we could see that mamma and he were very, very triste. This made us sorry. So he talked to us of all you had written of the happiness of the people here, because they were truly good and pure in their love toward each other, without selfish concealments; then we were glad and wanted to be with you.
1877, R. Elton Smilie, chapter XXIX, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derécho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 399–400:Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste.
2025 October 12, Simon Tisdall, “France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more triste | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most triste | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| trist | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
tristeness · tristness · tristeful · tristful
Synonyms
moody · down · sorrowful · saddened · elegiac · blitheless · sorrow-ridden · mournful · blue · despondent · doleful · inconsolable · miserable · chopfallen · uncheerful · heavy-hearted · woeful · downsome · sombre · disheartened · plaintive · heartsick · unconsolable · down in the mouth · damp · disconsolate · disgruntled · cheerless · woe · gloomy · infelicitous · melancholy · glum · threnetical · wretched · lamentful · solemn · melancholic · unhappy · sullen · grief-stricken · elegious · ruthful · dull · downcast · sorrowsome · cut up · morose · atrabiliary · lugubrious · dolesome · jawfallen · unhappy · crestfallen · unlively · depressed · woebegone · low · miserable · dejected · querulous · shattered · heartsore · wistful · grieving · down in the dumps · lumpish · low-spirited · mopey · joyless · spiritless · forlorn · passionate · Plutonic · dispirited · bummed out · threnetic · downhearted · chapfallen · uncheery · lachrymose · sad · dismal · saturnine · Plutonian · atrabilious · triste · tristful