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tristful

[trist-fuhl] / ˈtrɪst fəl /
ADJECTIVE
depressed
Synonyms
WEAK
bad blue bummed out cast down crestfallen crummy dejected desolate despondent destroyed disconsolate dispirited down down and out down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted dragged dull dysphoric fed up gloomy glum grim heavy-hearted hurting in a blue funk in pain in the dumps in the pits in the toilet let down low low-down low-spirited lugubrious melancholic melancholy moody morose on a downer pessimistic ripped sad spiritless taken down torn-up unhappy weeping wistful woebegone

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Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber, I was lapped in rest and slumber, Ye have made me wakeful, wistful!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx,   This tristful brooklet, when it has descended   Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Late when the sumach's red was dulled and worn, And fainter grew the trite and troublous word Of tristful cricket, that replaced the bird, I sought the slope, and found a waste forlorn.

From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Cone, Helen Gray

There are few sadder poems than this with its tristful refrain, even in the works of Mr. Hardy.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

Now she is drawn up from me, All my angels, wet-eyed, tristful, Gaze from great Heaven's gate Like pent children, very wistful, That below a playmate see.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis