Synonyms of tryst

tryst

noun

ˈtrist 

as in rendezvous

an agreement to be present at a specified time and place

both lovers had to hurry to keep their noontime tryst in the park

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rendezvous
• appointment
• date
• assignation
• engagement
• meeting
• interview
• arrangement
• invitation
• visit
• schedule
• get-together
• call

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tryst

Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard. —Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026

Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts. —Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026

The film’s first scene features a tryst, in a back room of a shoe store, between the protagonist, a twenty-three-year-old salesman named Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), and a young married woman named Rachel (Odessa A’zion). —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025

In DaCosta’s vision, Tessa Thompson dives in as Hedda, a woman in 1950s London trapped within the constraints of society who, in one fateful night amid a swirl of scandal, trysts and jealousy at an opulent party, decides to take it all down. —Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025