trist

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/tɹɪst/

noun

Trust, faith.

OriginOld French triste →
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Meanings

trist1

nountrist (plural trists)

plural trists

  1. obsoleteTrust, faith.
verbtrist (third-person singular simple present trists, present participle tristing, simple past and past participle tristed)

present singular third person trists · participle present tristing · participle past tristed · past tristed

  1. obsoleteTo trust, have faith in.

trist2

nountrist (plural trists)

plural trists

  1. obsoleteA set station in hunting.
  2. obsoleteObsolete form of tryst (“secret meeting”).

    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.

    1543, anonymous, Howard Papers, letter dated September 1543

trist3

adjectivetrist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

comparative more trist · superlative most trist

  1. alternativeAlternative form of triste (“sad; sorrowful; gloomy”).

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

    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

Origin

trist · noun, verb

Apparently related to trust.

Full word history & related roots →

trist · noun

  1. Old Frenchtriste
  2. Englishtrist

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with trist

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trist.

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