tristful

a. 悲哀的, 忧郁的

词形变化

more tristful 比较级 most tristful 最高级

别名

tristeful

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Sad, melancholic.

    古体

    Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.

    1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184, I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]

词源

From Middle English trystefull; equivalent to trist + -ful.

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