trist

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Apparently related to trust.

trist (plural trists)

1. (obsolete) Trust, faith.

trist (third-person singular simple present trists, present participle tristing, simple past and past participle tristed)

1. (obsolete) To trust, have faith in.

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

trist (plural trists)

1. (obsolete) A set station in hunting.
2. (obsolete, form of tryst) (secret meeting).
   • 1543, anonymous, Howard Papers, letter dated September 1543

     George Douglas […] caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.

trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

1. Alternative form of triste (“sad; sorrowful; gloomy”).
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Thirteenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 29, page 240:

     A bitter ſorrow by the hart him bit, / Amas’d, aſham’d, diſgras’d, ſad, ſilent, triſt, [...]

• ritts, trits

From Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis. Compare Welsh trist, French triste.

trist

1. sad

• tristidigezh

Inherited from Old Catalan trist, from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Occitan triste.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾist]

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trist (feminine trista, masculine plural trists or tristos, feminine plural tristes)

1. sad, unhappy

   Antonyms: feliç, alegre

• tristesa
• tristament
• entristir

• “trist”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trist”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “trist” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trist” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin trīstis.

• IPA^(key): /triːst/

trist

1. sad, mournful

• [1] in Gerlyver Kernewek
• Gerlyver Meur, 3rd Edition, 2020

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter trist, plural and definite singular attributive triste, comparative tristere, superlative (predicative) tristest, superlative (attributive) tristeste)

1. sad
2. (of a situation) sad

Inflection

• “trist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

trist

1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

• cjâtif
• malcreât
• necuitôs

Borrowed from French triste. Ultimately from Latin trīstis.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɪst/

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trist (strong nominative masculine singular trister, comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

1. dull
2. miserable
3. sad

• trostlos, öde

• “trist” in Duden online
• “trist” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

trist

1. alternative form of trest

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristere, indefinite superlative tristest, definite superlative tristeste)

1. sad
2. depressing
3. (as an adverb) sadly

• tristhet

• “trist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristare, indefinite superlative tristast, definite superlative tristaste)

1. sad
2. depressing
3. (as an adverb) sadly

• “trist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

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trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

1. sad

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 320.
• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 998.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrist/

trist

1. sad

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

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trist m or n (feminine singular tristă, masculine plural triști, feminine and neuter plural triste)

1. sad

   Antonyms: fericit, bucuros, vesel

• tristețe

• trest (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) sad

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) allegher
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) legher
• (Puter, Vallader) alleger

trist (Cyrillic spelling трист)

1. (colloquial) thirty

   Synonym: (Standard) trideset

Borrowed from French triste, from Latin tristis.

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trist (comparative tristare, superlative tristast)

1. boring
2. not fun, bad, a pity

   Det var trist att höra att din kanin har dött

   I’m sorry to hear that your bunny died

• trist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Middle Welsh trist, from Old Welsh trist, from Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /triːsd/, [triːst]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /trɪsd/, [trɪst]
• Rhymes: -iːsd, -ɪsd

trist (feminine singular trist, plural tristion, equative tristed, comparative tristach, superlative tristaf)

1. sad

   Synonyms: anhapus, prudd, galarus

• tristwch (“sadness”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “trist”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trist”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies