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tristful

[trist-fuhl] / ˈtrɪst fəl /

ADJECTIVE

depressed

Synonyms

WEAK

bad blue bummed out cast down crestfallen crummy dejected desolate despondent destroyed disconsolate dispirited down down and out down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted dragged dull dysphoric fed up gloomy glum grim heavy-hearted hurting in a blue funk in pain in the dumps in the pits in the toilet let down low low-down low-spirited lugubrious melancholic melancholy moody morose on a downer pessimistic ripped sad spiritless taken down torn-up unhappy weeping wistful woebegone

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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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Is true inheritor of Judah's throne, Last born of tristful Ochoziah's children, Reared up, you know it, by the name of Joas.

From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by Donkersley, J.

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There are few sadder poems than this with its tristful refrain, even in the works of Mr. Hardy.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

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 Biese, Alfred

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