triste

Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
Adjective
  • Maybe not the question to ask a Canadian, but could sad smoke breaks bring America together today?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • One of Jones’ most famous productions stands as his top-selling title in this sad moment, but it’s not credited to him as an artist.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This is what passes for epiphany for the solemn, solitary Jane, who searches for self-knowledge in a woebegone key.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Beginning his act while seated in the audience, with a cowboy hat obscuring his impossibly angular features, Gosling was in character as the woebegone Ken, a macho hunk doomed to play beta in the toy netherworld of Barbie.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • The promised live music turned out to be a single violinist, and instead of ballroom dancing, there was a pole dancer performing for the crestfallen crowd.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The shooting and its aftermath took a toll on a crestfallen family and a city mired in underdevelopment.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Duane Shabazz excels as our forlorn hero, leaning into Juicy’s awkwardness in an earnest way that endears him to the audience.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
  • That evening, then-mayor Jim Kenney held a forlorn press conference.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In 1976, Jill haunts the public parlor like a glum ghost, no longer a sweet little kid but an an antsy, mousy 32-year-old with a secret cigarette habit.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • And despite Americans' glum outlook about the economy, consumers are still spending.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Despite the gloomy 2022 pre-election polling outlook, polls ended up performing exceptionally well that year.
    Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, in 2008 his gloomy outlook came true with the Global Financial Crisis, and markets have minded his insights ever since.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Context: Harris — who served as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator from the state between 2017 and 2021 — could help electrify an exhausted, disconsolate party.
    Jacob Knutson, Axios, 22 July 2024
Adjective
  • Ryan seemed particularly despondent after the fight during her interview with ESPN's Mark Kriegel, who scored the fight in her favor.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Kenneth is despondent about his future until Corrina (Rebecca S’manga Frank), a waitress at Wally’s, tells him to apply for a job at one of the banks.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024

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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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