Tristful

Synonyms for "tristful" (87 found)

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Adjective(18 words)

atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp dark dejected depressed desolate despondent disconsolate disgruntled

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Adjective(25 words)

disheartened dismal dispirited doleful dolesome down down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull elegiac elegious forlorn gloomy glum grief-stricken grieving heartsick

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heartsore heavy-hearted inconsolable infelicitous jawfallen

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Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.

Source: wiktionary

[…] Heaven’s face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.

Source: wiktionary

[…] So shine thy tristfull light With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright The world:

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1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184, I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]

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