tristful

[trist-fuhl]

trist·ful

[trist-fuhl]
adjective
full of sadness; sorrowful.

Origin:
1485–95; obsolete trist sad, gloomy (< Old French triste < Latin tristis) + -ful

trist·ful·ly, adverb
trist·ful·ness, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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triste or tristful (triːst, ˈtrɪstfʊl)
 
adj
archaic words for sad
 
[from French]
 
tristful or tristful
 
adj
 
[from French]
 
'tristfully or tristful
 
adv
 
'tristfulness or tristful
 
n

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