Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Sad; wistful.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of tryst.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A cattle fair.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective rare sad
  • noun UK, dialect A cattle fair.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tristis.]

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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tristis ("sad, sorrowful").

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Examples

  • Madamoiselle, who was rather charming but "triste" because so many of her friends had been killed, so "triste" that she never plays the piano now.

    Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack

  • The doorway of L'Abbaye was not deserted, even at the "triste" hour of ten-thirty.

    Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Beledo's World-Jazz acoustic work incorporates classic Uruguayan musical forms such as triste, milonga, chimarrita, and candombe rhythms, as well as Spanish flamenco styles.

    Press Release 2009

  • But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.

    Emdashes Jonathan Taylor 2010

  • But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.

    Emdashes Jonathan Taylor 2010

  • (When he pronounces Tryst it sounds like "triste," which means sad.

    Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 15 - The Chilean 2010

  • (When he pronounces Tryst it sounds like "triste," which means sad.

    Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 15 - The Chilean 2010

  • "triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839

  • "triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • En las últimas horas de la noche-ellos en una triste

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 598 2009

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  • spanish word: sad

    August 16, 2009

  • spanish : sad.

    August 16, 2009