tristesse
tristesse noun: sadness.
Noun
tristesse (uncountable)
- sadness
- The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 52
- “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times
Origin of tristesse
From Middle English trestesse, tristes, tristesce, tristesse, tristice, from Middle French tristesse.
Phrases with tristesse
Words that rhyme with tristesse
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- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
Questions about tristesse
- What does tristesse mean?
- Tristesse means sadness.
- What part of speech is tristesse?
- Tristesse is a noun.
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