Usually means: Sadness, melancholy, or sorrowful state.
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  1. tristesse: Merriam-Webster
  2. tristesse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tristesse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Tristesse, tristesse: Wordnik
  5. tristesse: Wiktionary
  6. tristesse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Tristesse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tristesse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (literary) sadness

Similar:
sads, sorrow, mourn, dolour, site, sorrowe, morbs, lacrimae rerum, ruth, forlesing, more...

Opposite:
happiness, joy, bliss, delight, pleasure

Phrases:
Post-coital tristesse, Bonjour Tristesse, more...

Adjectives:
coital, postcoital, intolerable, certain, vague, such, general



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Similar:
sads, sorrow, mourn, dolour, site, sorrowe, morbs, lacrimae rerum, ruth, forlesing, more...

Opposite:
happiness, joy, bliss, delight, pleasure

Phrases:
Post-coital tristesse, Bonjour Tristesse, more...

Adjectives:
coital, postcoital, intolerable, certain, vague, such, general



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