triste
bleak ; sad ; sagging ; wistful ; depressing ; glum ; miserable ; morose ; doleful ; mournful ; plangent.
The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.
Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
It was obvious that Balzac's enthusiasm for the grant lifted his spirits up from their normal sagging state.
A wistful look appeared in his eyes as he lingered over memories of President Langeford.
Since 1963 they have produced their own bibliographic listings with various degrees of efficiency and comprehensiveness but usually with the same depressing tardiness in recording new publications which has so beset the UNDEX listings.
Children no less than adults are subject to fits of boredom, to times when they feel glum or restless when everything they usually enjoy lacks attraction, purpose or pleasure.
Sometimes of an evening, after my miserable journeyings through the day, I would stand for hours in the Strand, leaning against the shutters of a closed shop, and watching the compositors at work by gaslight on the opposite side of the way, upon a morning paper.
His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
This year will go down as the most depressing doleful Christmas I've ever had.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.
Caballero de la Triste Figura, el
Knight of the Doleful Countenance, the
The novel tells the story of a present day advertising executive who travels back in time and meets the Knight of the Doleful Countenance.
cara triste
grim face
I don't know about your garbage men but mine are rather huge guys with grim faces.
caso triste
sad story
If nothing else, the sad story of Dialog and the American Chemical Society may serve to chart the waters a little better for other organisations in the field.
la triste realidad (del asunto) es que
the sad truth (of the matter) is that
The sad truth of the matter is that reference librarians have been unable to reach agreement on the blindingly simple proposition that their job is answering questions asked by users.
la triste realidad es que
the sad fact is (that)
The sad fact is that the majority of web pages suffer this same ill fate.
ponerse triste
mope
sulk
The problem is that my dog begins to mope/sulk (tail between legs, head low, body low, doesn't move) for long periods of times if I correct him.
The problem is that my dog begins to mope/sulk (tail between legs, head low, body low, doesn't move) for long periods of times if I correct him.
sentirse triste
feel + sad
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
triste de admitir
sad to relate
Of course the perceptive librarian is on the alert for signs of this reaction on the part of the reader, but, sad to relate, there are those who will be deterred by nothing short of a loud cry of 'Stop'.
triste realidad
fact of life
Even with the closest supervision some books will be lost through theft, a fact of life one must recognize and cope with.
triste recordatorio
painful reminder
For some people class reunions act as a ritual of passage, while for others it may seems like a painful reminder of time marching on.
