tristeful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of tristful.
Example Sentences
- "Unchanged the world remains.---The change is here; / In this sad breast,---this sorrow-sunken soul, / This tristeful heart, the deep, dark dungeon, where / Lie broken hopes and ever-during dole."
- "Lady Katrine was there, with her “tristeful visage,” as Churchill justly called it, and more tristeful it presently became."
- "The work has been called melancholy, and the impression it leaves has been represented as lugubriously tristeful."
- "From this church tower during the still hours of the night, comes the tristeful cry of the watchman, “Past twelve, all’s well: bright starry night,” or “stormy night.”"
- "Shortly afterwards, however, Sir Ernest’s wife was observed to lapse into her old tristeful state."
- "Ye tristeful Souvenirs! why this vain intent / Of over-tiring heart so tired by Fate?"
Inflected Forms
more tristeful (comparative)
most tristeful (superlative)