TRISTE Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

triste

adjective

Definition of triste

as in sad

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Adjective

Bao and Dani also get some votes, but Yangyang and Octavius get none, which is sad.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2026
But that selflessness comes to feel like the point of this lingering, resonantly sad film — above all else, an elegy for lives unseen and unknown.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 July 2026

Definition of sad

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Brewer was hired two years ago after more than a decade as head coach at perennial power Georgia, part of a commitment by the school and a motivated (and wealthy) alumni group willing to pump resources into a woebegone golf program.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
After three seasons of almost nothing but dread and sorrow, the NBA’s most woebegone franchise, for generations, finally had a moment to celebrate.

— David Aldridge, New York Times, 11 May 2026

Definition of woebegone

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As the home team took their victory lap and residents rushed onto the pitch to celebrate their team, Tong, the dentist from Baoding, looked crestfallen, but was already thinking to the next season.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Fans hoping the Bears would move to Arlington Heights were crestfallen Monday after state lawmakers failed to act.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026

Definition of crestfallen

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England reached stumps on 103-4 after 15 overs, still needing 270 runs in its seemingly forlorn chase of 373 to win on a deteriorating pitch and heading for a first defeat in a home series of three or more tests since 2012.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
Before pushing the film into its final forlorn section, the excitement that something sexy might happen charges the actors.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026

Definition of forlorn

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But even to conceive of the DSA’s entry to the party as mainly an electoral setback, as some glum liberals appear to be doing, is to miss the deeper significance of the group’s influence.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
Coming to the glum realization that love isn’t outlasting infatuation is trickier to write about than a more incendiary subject like unfaithfulness, but Rodrigo pulls it off.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 12 June 2026

Definition of glum

Adjective

In a gloomy prologue, casual conversations between Punjab police officers precipitate equally casual executions by moonlight, under the pretext of curbing terror.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 July 2026
Despite any accolades that may have come, the environment for an independent artist seemed gloomier than ever.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Definition of gloomy

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