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triste — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blue adjective Having the colour of a clear daytime sky.
  • dismal adjective Gloomy, dreary, and depressing.
  • doleful adj Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dreary adj Dull, gloomy, and depressing.
  • joyless adj Without joy; unhappy, sad.
  • lugubrious adj Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • moody adj Prone to sudden changes in emotional state; temperamental.
  • pale adjective Light in colour, or lacking the usual colour, especially in the face.
  • ruthful adj Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.
  • sad adj Feeling sorrow or unhappiness.
  • sickly adj Frequently ill, or generally weak and unhealthy.
  • sorrowful adj Feeling or showing deep sadness.

Senses

triste is used for these senses in English:

  • blue (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  • dismal Disappointingly inadequate.
  • dismal Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  • doleful Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dreary Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
  • joyless Without joy; unhappy, sad.
  • lugubrious Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • moody Sulky or depressed.

blue — full definition

  1. adjective Having the colour of a clear daytime sky.
  2. adjective Sad or depressed.
  3. noun The colour itself, between green and violet on the spectrum.
  4. noun A member of a police force, sports team, or political party associated with the colour blue (informal, often plural as "blues").

dismal — full definition

  1. adjective Gloomy, dreary, and depressing.
  2. adjective Very poor in quality or performance.

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