Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tristis ("sad, sorrowful"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tristis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Madamoiselle, who was rather charming but "triste" because so many of her friends had been killed, so "triste" that she never plays the piano now.”
“The doorway of L'Abbaye was not deserted, even at the "triste" hour of ten-thirty.”
“Beledo's World-Jazz acoustic work incorporates classic Uruguayan musical forms such as triste, milonga, chimarrita, and candombe rhythms, as well as Spanish flamenco styles.”
“But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.”
“(When he pronounces Tryst it sounds like "triste," which means sad.”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 15 - The Chilean
“triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.”
“En las últimas horas de la noche-ellos en una triste”
“J'ai raconté la triste histoire de Smokey à mes six chiens, qui ont écouté, les yeux ouverts avec concerne.”
“Lo que nunca dijeron, fue que esta dama de triste recordación se convirtió en la gran protectora de los grandes empresarios y oligarcas del país, privilegiando la recaudación de los impuestos indirectos – como el IVA o el ICE - y “olvidando” la recaudación de los impuestos directos como el Impuesto a la Renta.”
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: New Taxes Will Attempt to Help Economy
“Como un ejemplo más de las falacias con que nos hicieron vivir durante la larga, triste y miserable noche neoliberal, los áulicos del sistema glorificaron a Elsa de Mena y su supuesta “reforma tributaria” que organizó al SRI, automatizó procesos, mejoró recaudaciones y expandió la base tributaria.”
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: New Taxes Will Attempt to Help Economy
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘triste’.
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Logolepsy
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for b...
lachrymose, melancholic, sorrow, wail, mournful, sob, misery, wretchedness, anguish, agony, heartbreak, lament and 38 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce and 198 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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all spanish words!!!
filled with favorite spanish words
amarillo, palabraphile, anadir, llorar, lluvia, brillo, oreja, tengo, tienes, pongo, pones, triste and 51 more...
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hagendas 2009
aptronym, legerdemain, canard, unctuous, pianissimo, paterfamilias, odious, poetaster, mellifluous, fantod, sacristan, debouch and 65 more...
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Latin is Optime
I like Latin :)
crepitaculum, mendax, ianua, quotannis, quamquam, quod, stultissimus, ululavit, igitur, aliquis, senex, barba and 31 more...
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foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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Tweets
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sosheshall spanish : sad. Aug 16, 2009
sosheshall spanish word: sad Aug 16, 2009