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tristes

tristes is the plural of triste.

Meaning of triste

Adjective

triste (comparative more triste, superlative most triste)

  1. (rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
    • He said, he wanted them to take us to Heraclea that we might be educated so that we would be always good, and could be present with him and mamma although absent in body, which would keep them from feeling sad and lonely. But we could see that mamma and he were very, very triste. This made us...1877, R. Elton Smilie, chapter XXIX, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derécho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 399–400

Questions about tristes

What is tristes the plural of?
Tristes is the plural of triste.

Words near tristes in the dictionary

  1. tristearins
  2. tristed
  3. tristeful
  4. Tristen
  5. tristeness
  6. tristes
  7. tristesse
  8. tristetrahedral
  9. tristetrahedron
  10. tristetraprolin
  11. tristetraprolins

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