tristful

== English == === Alternative forms === tristeful === Etymology === From Middle English trystefull; equivalent to trist +‎ -ful. === Adjective === tristful (comparative more tristful, superlative most tristful) (archaic) Sad, melancholic. Synonyms: miserable, sorrowful; see also Thesaurus:sad 1579, Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, London, Book 2, “The Complaint of Adonia Sonne, to King Dauid,”[1] Remember me which past before your time, Remember how I fell from blisse to bale: 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,[3] 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 […]