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6-letter words (6 found)

SITTER,TETRIS,TITERS,TITRES,TRISTE,TRITES,

5-letter words (16 found)

REIST,RESIT,RITES,RITTS,STIRE,TERTS,TETRI,TIERS,TIRES,TITER,TITRE,TREST,TRETS,TRIES,TRIST,TRITE,

4-letter words (26 found)

ERST,IRES,REIS,REST,RETS,RISE,RITE,RITS,RITT,SEIR,SETT,SIRE,SITE,STET,STIE,STIR,TEST,TETS,TIER,TIES,TIRE,TITE,TITS,TRES,TRET,TRIE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ERS,EST,IRE,ITS,REI,RES,RET,RIT,SEI,SER,SET,SIR,SIT,SRI,TES,TET,TIE,TIS,TIT,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ES,ET,IS,IT,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 78 words from triste according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of triste

triste

Alternative forms

  • trist

Etymology

From Middle English trist, triste (-e form is less common), borrowed from Old French trist, triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”). Re-borrowed late 18c. (as “dull, uninteresting”) as a French word in English and often spelled triste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɪst/
  • Homophones: trist, tryst
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Adjective

triste (comparative more triste, superlative most triste)

  1. (rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.

Derived terms

  • tristeness, tristness
  • tristeful, tristful

References

Further reading

  • “triste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “triste”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “triste”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Sitter, Strite, Tetris, sitter, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset

Danish

Adjective

triste

  1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French triste, borrowed from Latin trīstis. Old French originally had trist, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, a variant of the same word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁist/
  • Homophone: tristes
  • Hyphenation: triste
  • Rhymes: -ist

Adjective

triste (plural tristes)

  1. sad
    Synonyms: chagriné, déçu, désappointé, désenchanté, malheureux
    Antonyms: béat, bienheureux, comblé, content, enchanté, épanoui, gai, heureux, joyeux, ravi, réjoui, satisfait

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Louisiana Creole: tris
  • → Danish: trist
  • → Dutch: triest
  • → English: triste
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: trist
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: trist
  • → Swedish: trist
  • → German: trist

See also

Further reading

  • “triste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • titres

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, presumably a borrowing from Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes)

  1. sad, unhappy
    Antonym: alegre

Derived terms

  • tristemente

Related terms

  • tristeza
  • tristura

Further reading

  • “triste” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

triste

  1. inflection of trist:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

triste (comparative plus triste, superlative le plus triste)

  1. sad

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trīstis. Compare tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtri.ste/
  • Rhymes: -iste
  • Hyphenation: trì‧ste

Adjective

triste (plural tristi, superlative tristissimo)

  1. sad, unhappy, bleak
    Antonym: allegro

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • triste in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

trīste (not comparable)

  1. sadly

Etymology 2

Adjective

trīste

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of trīstis

References

  • “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • triste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French triste, borrowed from Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m or f

  1. (Jersey) sad

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural of trist

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural of trist

Old French

Alternative forms

  • tirst (< VL. trīstus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular triste)

  1. sad

Related terms

  • tristor

Descendants

  • French: triste
    • → English: triste
  • Norman: triste

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, presumably a borrowing from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.ti/
  • Hyphenation: tris‧te

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes, comparable, comparative mais triste, superlative o mais triste or tristíssimo, diminutive tristinho, augmentative tristão)

  1. (of a person) sad; unhappy; down
    Synonym: infeliz
    Eles estavam tristes porque o inverno começou. ― They were sad because winter had begun.
  2. (of something) sad (causing sadness)
    Era um filme bastante triste. ― It was quite a sad film.
  3. (of a person) disappointed
    Synonyms: decepcionado, desapontado
    Estou muito triste com você. ― I’m really disappointed with you.
  4. (of a situation) lamentable; pitiful
    Synonyms: vergonhoso, lamentável
    A situação das escolas é triste. ― The situation of the schools is lamentable.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • tristeza

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtris.te]

Adjective

triste f pl or n pl

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of trist

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trīstis. Compare the Old Spanish tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾiste/ [ˈt̪ɾis.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -iste
  • Syllabification: tris‧te

Adjective

triste m or f (masculine and feminine plural tristes, superlative tristísimo)

  1. sad, saddened, blue, gloomy, unhappy, joyless, triste
  2. dismal, dreary, glum, miserable, melancholy
  3. sorrowful, mournful
  4. forlorn
  5. upsetting, saddening
  6. dull

Antonyms

  • alegre

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • “triste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Adjective

triste

  1. definite natural masculine singular of trist

Anagrams

  • istret, sitter

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