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Tristful   Listen
adjective
Tristful  adj.  Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. "Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tristful" Quotes from Famous Books



... husband, rather than in the midst of people who must distract his thoughts from her; as also it is right and proper she should wish to be in her own home, directing her domestic affairs and tending to her husband—showing him withal she is a good and thoughtful housewife. But why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire? Then, finding I must seek some better explanation of her case, I bethought me she must have had a very hard, difficult task in London to conceal from one, who was now a part of herself, her knowledge of ...
— A Set of Rogues • Frank Barrett



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