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tristful

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trist·ful  (trstfl)
adj.
Sorrowful; gloomy.

[Middle English : triste, sad; see triste + -ful, -ful.]

tristful·ly adv.
tristful·ness n.

tristful - Means "full of melancholy or sadness."
See also related terms for melancholy.


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I drive home from the gun show under the heatless midwinter sun singing along with the car radio to the touched Scott Walker's tristful "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.
The reader has to piece together the plot, but the scriptwriter unfolds it with easy assurance as a straightforward flashback beginning with Miss Kenton's arrival at Darlington Hall and ending with her departure; then the present-tense reunion of the two servants gives us a tristful coda.
The reader has to piece together the plot, but the scriptwriter unfolds it with easy assurance as a straightforward flashback beginning with Miss Kenton's arrival at Darlington Hall and ending with her departure; then the present-tense reunion of the two servants gives us a tristful coda.
 
 
 
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