tristful
Adjective

tristful

  1. (archaic) Sad, melancholic.
    • 1579, Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, London, Book 2, “The Complaint of Adonia Sonne, to King Dauid,”
      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.
    • circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4,
      […] Heaven’s face doth glow;
      Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
      With tristful visage, as against the doom,
      Is thought-sick at the act.
    • 1648, Edward Sherburne (translator), Medea (Seneca) by Seneca the Younger, London: Humphrey Moseley, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 42,
      […] So shine thy tristfull light
      With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright
      The world:
    • 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 […]
    • 1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday (novel), Part 3, Chapter 24,
      A wistful look in your mirror, and an air of tristful languor in public, and a sense of being deeper than you thought you were, if you ever thought about it at all.



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