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
   • […] Heaven’s face doth glow;
     Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
     With tristful visage, as against the doom,
     Is thought-sick at the act.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless