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tristeful

tristeful is the alternative form of tristful.

Meaning of tristful

Adjective

tristful (comparative more tristful, superlative most tristful)

  1. (archaic) Sad, melancholic.
    • Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,
      Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.1579, Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, London, Book 2, “The Complaint of Adonia Sonne, to King Dauid,” Remember me which past before your time, Remember how I fell from blisse to bale

Forms of tristeful

comparativemore tristeful
superlativemost tristeful

Questions about tristeful

What is tristeful the alternative form of?
Tristeful is the alternative form of tristful.

Words near tristeful in the dictionary

  1. tristearate
  2. tristearates
  3. tristearin
  4. tristearins
  5. tristed
  6. tristeful
  7. Tristen
  8. tristeness
  9. tristes
  10. tristesse
  11. tristetrahedral

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