Faint word meaning and definition
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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[adjective] lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
[adjective] lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
[adjective] indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"
[adjective] barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "faint colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"
[adjective] lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
[adjective] weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
[verb] pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
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\Faint\, n. The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See {Fainting}, n. The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint. --Sir W. Scott.
\Faint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fainting}.] 1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See {Fainting}, n. Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. --Guardian. If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. --Mark viii. 8. 2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --Prov. xxiv. 10. 3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. --Pope.
\Faint\, v. t. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. [Obs.] It faints me to think what follows. --Shak.
Synonyms for faint
conk, coward(a), cowardly, dim, fainthearted, fearful, feeble, ill, indistinct, light, lightheaded, light-headed, pass out, perceptible, shadowy, sick, swoon, swoon, swooning, syncope, timid, vague, weak, wispy
See also: black out | loss of consciousness | zonk out |
Related terms: achromic, bad, cadaverous, colorless, debilitated, decline, discolored, dizziness, exsanguinated, faintish, get tired, grow weary, keel over, low-profile, misty, nirvana principle, off-color, pallid, stifled, strengthless, toneless, unplain, vague, washed-out, weak-willed, wear away, weary-laden, weary-worn, whispered, wilt
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Let's analyse "faint" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: TNIAF. Average typing speed for these characters is 1385 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
faint: 1 + 9 = 10, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One. |
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