Meaning of tristful | Babel Free
Examples
“Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime, Which forced me to tell⟳ this tristfull tale.”
“[…] Heaven’s face⟳ doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.”
“[…] 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 […]”
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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