The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tristful
Tristful \Trist"ful\ (tr[i^]st"f[.u]l), a.
Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
--Shak.
Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful,
Heart so full of care and cumber.
--Longfellow.
Wiktionary
tristful
a. sad, melancholic.
Usage examples of "tristful".
He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, tristful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple.