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Tristful is a word in English. And it means sorrowful or gloomy, so he's right.
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aFrenchie: Eh. "Sad" is a word, what I perfectly know, even so I always forget it.
And I've get the word "tristful" from a dictionary... so... But the you for the informations anyway. Oh, I'm late, maareek was faster. Thank you too, maareek!
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EDIT: And look at this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tristful |
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I doubt it's something that you'd find in a translation dictionary. You'd be more likely to find it in an English thesaurus I would imagine. And I'm pretty sure it's quite old. It's not used very much at all, but I remember hearing it a few times, and reading it in older books.
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I don't know... My dictionary contains it...
Here it is: http://szotar.sztaki.hu/dict_search....=1&P=0&C=1&T=1 tristful = bánatos, búbánatos, bús, szomorú == sad. AND: If Wiktionary doesn't contains it, it doesn't means, it's not an existing word... By the way, it's one of my problems with english. I don't know a word... I look after in the dictionary... and it gives me 100 english words. How could I know, which one should I use?
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Have you seen my EDIT in my previous post?
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It's not in the list of synonyms for "sad" either:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sad#Synonyms Oddly enough, it's "triste" in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spain! http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sad#Translations |
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Well I don't have time to find a real dictionary/thesaurus (I have gigtanic ones of each but have to go to work soon), but a quick search on the web gave this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tristful
It was also "triste" in middle english, so technically using "triste" would work in any of the five languages mentioned. |
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aFrenchie: That showes, that SZTAKI (my dictionary) is better then Wiktionary. Bebebeeee.
Do you know, what? I notice "sad", and it will be okay.
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Don't let something like this deter you from using that dictionary, mozaik. Having a large vocabulary is nothing bad, and I find it hard to believe that a word you find in a dictionary is, or at least hasn't been, a word used in English. There's just so many words in English that nobody could ever hope to know all of them.
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