tristful
adjective
trist·ful ˈtrist-fəl 
: sad, melancholy
tristfully
ˈtrist-fə-lē
adverb tristfulness noun
Did you know?
The Middle English word trist, from which tristful is derived, means "sad." Today, we spell this word triste (echoing the spelling of its French ancestor, a descendant of the Latin tristis), whereas tristful has continued to be spelled without the e. Is there a connection between triste ("sad") and tryst ("a secret rendezvous of lovers")? No. Tryst also traces back to a Middle English trist, but it is a different word, a noun that is a synonym of trust. This other word trist eventually fell into disuse, but before doing so, it may have given rise to a word for a station used by hunters, which in turn led to tryst.
Word History
Etymology
Middle English trist sad, from Anglo-French triste
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
- not getting any younger
- not give (someone) the time of day
- not give a fig
- not give a monkey's
- not give a toss
- not give someone the time of day
- not give the time of day
- not go amiss
- not half
- not half bad
- not have a care in the world
- down on one's luck
- down one's alley
- down one's street
- down payment
- down payments
- down someone's alley
- down south
- Down syndrome
- down the drain
- down the hatch
- down the line
- down the middle
- down the pan
- down the path to perdition