tristement
See also: tristément
French
editEtymology
editFrom triste (“sad”) + -ment (adverb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edittristement
- sadly, gloomily, sorrowfully, miserably
- tristement célèbre ― infamous, sadly notorious
- 1668, Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, volume VII, section 11:
- Un mort s’en allait tristement s’emparer de son dernier gîte […]
- A dead man was going sorrowfully to take possession of his final resting-place […]
- 1996, Louis Boyé, Un jour, le grand bateau viendra : Chronique de la résistance, L’Harmattan, Paris, page 359:
- Nous errons tristement dans les rues quand nous avisons une compagnie de la Wehrmacht en train de popoter à la roulante sur la place du village.
- We're wandering miserably through the streets when we catch sight of a company of Wehrmacht in the process of making a meal at the mobile canteen in the village square.
Further reading
edit- “tristement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.