trysts

noun

plural of tryst
as in rendezvous
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place both lovers had to hurry to keep their noontime tryst in the park

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Recent Examples of trysts Tenderness is often reserved for moments of isolation when the characters are reflecting on their trysts or their wants; rarely is that articulated between two people. — Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026 If the first four episodes of Bridgerton’s swoon-worthy fourth season were about desperate, hungry yearning, then the final four were more about, er, consummation—complete with secret trysts, steaming hot baths, false identities, and genuinely big shocks. — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026 Yet despite the growing global consensus that all trysts should start on the opposite sides of a hockey puck, most real-life skating entanglements occur between athletes on the same team. — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026 Many stumble into their digital trysts accidentally after playing around with AI. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026 Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026 Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts. — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026 In DaCosta’s vision, Tessa Thompson dives in as Hedda, a woman in 1950s London trapped within the constraints of society who, in one fateful night amid a swirl of scandal, trysts and jealousy at an opulent party, decides to take it all down. — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025 But after the birth of their three children, their passionate trysts are eventually exchanged for lonely moments miles apart. — Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trysts
  1. rendezvous
  2. dates
  3. appointments
  4. assignations
Noun
  • During the rendezvous with the space station, five thrusters in the capsule's service module failed, resulting in a temporary loss of full maneuverability.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • That makes communications, navigation, orbital rendezvous, and mission logistics substantially harder.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of rendezvous
Noun
  • Spring & Mulberry chocolate is notoriously good for gifting—the packaging is beautiful, and the brand uses the best of ingredients from direct-trade single-origin cacao and organic dates.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Grindr is currently piloting bot-to-bot conversations to vet human dates.
    — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of dates
Noun
  • Side effects may also occur and should be addressed through follow-up appointments.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • As a kid, Havi Nguyen sometimes missed school to translate at doctor’s appointments, and was managing Medicaid paperwork for herself and her sisters, on behalf of their parents who’d immigrated from Vietnam.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of appointments
Noun
  • The terror and the beauty of Jordan and Gareth’s assignations are that both men stop being able to tell themselves apart.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Men who trick their wives into outside romantic assignations ultimately need to be taught a lesson, and Diego de la Vega is no exception.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
Definition of assignations

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“Trysts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trysts. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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