triste

adjective

Definition of tristenext
as in sad

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
  1. sad
  2. woebegone
  3. crestfallen
  4. forlorn
  5. glum
  6. gloomy
  7. disconsolate
  8. despondent
Adjective
  • After a few training montages and a brief interview with facility manager Didi (Stephanie Beatriz), Charles moves into Pacific View to begin the process of meeting the staff and fellow residents, who are variously enthusiastic and sad, bored and over-programmed, lonely and horny.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Last year, Ficklin was feeling a little sad and anxious about moving out of her family’s home of 23 years.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of sad
Adjective
  • Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • This is what passes for epiphany for the solemn, solitary Jane, who searches for self-knowledge in a woebegone key.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of woebegone
Adjective
  • The promised live music turned out to be a single violinist, and instead of ballroom dancing, there was a pole dancer performing for the crestfallen crowd.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The shooting and its aftermath took a toll on a crestfallen family and a city mired in underdevelopment.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of crestfallen
Adjective
  • Downtown, the nearly identical tents of the Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance campaigns stood separated by several hundred feet on one of the main streets, but almost no one collected posters or bumper stickers from either forlorn camp on a balmy but heavily overcast day.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Duane Shabazz excels as our forlorn hero, leaning into Juicy’s awkwardness in an earnest way that endears him to the audience.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of forlorn
Adjective
  • In 1976, Jill haunts the public parlor like a glum ghost, no longer a sweet little kid but an an antsy, mousy 32-year-old with a secret cigarette habit.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • And despite Americans' glum outlook about the economy, consumers are still spending.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of glum
Adjective
  • Target is heading into the holiday season with a gloomy outlook, with the retailer reporting its sales and profit fell short of analysts' expectations and lowering its earnings forecast for the current quarter.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Television news always seems like a series of gloomy, negative stories.
    Jason Richmond, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of gloomy
Adjective
  • By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Context: Harris — who served as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator from the state between 2017 and 2021 — could help electrify an exhausted, disconsolate party.
    Jacob Knutson, Axios, 22 July 2024
Definition of disconsolate
Adjective
  • Ryan seemed particularly despondent after the fight during her interview with ESPN's Mark Kriegel, who scored the fight in her favor.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • As a mother watching Palestinian children starved and obliterated, my instinct is to feel utterly despondent, to feel powerless to make change.
    Stefanie Fox, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of despondent
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