tristeful

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of tristful.

   “Unchanged the world remains.-⁠-⁠-The change is here; / In this sad breast,-⁠-⁠-this sorrow-sunken soul, / This tristeful heart, the deep, dark dungeon, where / Lie broken hopes and ever-during dole.”

   “Lady Katrine was there, with her “tristeful visage,” as Churchill justly called it, and more tristeful it presently became.”

   “The work has been called melancholy, and the impression it leaves has been represented as lugubriously tristeful.”

   “From this church tower during the still hours of the night, comes the tristeful cry of the watchman, “Past twelve, all’s well: bright starry night,” or “stormy night.””

   “Shortly afterwards, however, Sir Ernest’s wife was observed to lapse into her old tristeful state.”