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单词 tristesse
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Definition of tristesse in English:

tristesse

noun trɪˈstɛstrēˈstes
mass nounliterary
  • A state of melancholy sadness.

    lamenting a lost love, he leaves us poised at the lip of a chasm of tristesse
    post-coital tristesse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
    • This special tone, a kind of enlightened tristesse, is the sign of a person who senses the existence of wisdom and ultimate good but is too humble to assert it.
    • They knew that satiation wasn't succeeded by tristesse, it was itself, immediately, tristesse.
    • And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
    • The two women know the moment has a certain tristesse.

Origin

French.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, underdress, vicomtesse, yes
 
 

Definition of tristesse in US English:

tristesse

nountrēˈstes
literary
  • A state of melancholy sadness.

    lamenting a lost love, he leaves us poised at the lip of a chasm of tristesse
    postcoital tristesse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
    • And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
    • They knew that satiation wasn't succeeded by tristesse, it was itself, immediately, tristesse.
    • The two women know the moment has a certain tristesse.
    • This special tone, a kind of enlightened tristesse, is the sign of a person who senses the existence of wisdom and ultimate good but is too humble to assert it.

Origin

French.

 
 
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