tristful

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1)  Sad, melancholic.
 * 2) * 1579,, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, London, Book 2, “The Complaint of Adonia Sonne, to King Dauid,”
 * Remember me which past before your time,
 * Remember how I fell from blisse to bale:
 * Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,
 * Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.
 * 1) * 1771,, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184,
 * I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller
 * 1) * 1771,, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184,
 * I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller