'Faint' definitions:
Definition of 'faint'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deficient in magnitude; 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"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse" [syn: faint, weak]
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" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]
adjective
Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice" [syn: faint, feeble]
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" [syn: faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded]
adjective
Indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"
adjective
Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" [syn: faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted]
noun
A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium]
verb
Definition of 'Faint'
From: GCIDE
- Faint \Faint\ (f[=a]nt), a. [Compar. Fainter (-[~e]r); superl. Faintest.] [OE. feint, faint, false, faint, F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign, suppose, hesitate. See Feign, and cf. Feint.]
- 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. [1913 Webster]
- The faint prosecution of the war. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Faint'
From: GCIDE
- Faint \Faint\, n. The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n. [1913 Webster]
- The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Faint'
From: GCIDE
- Faint \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. [1913 Webster]
- Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. --Guardian. [1913 Webster]
- If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. --Mark viii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. [1913 Webster]
- If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --Prov. xxiv. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. [1913 Webster]
- Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Faint'
From: GCIDE
- Faint \Faint\, v. t. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It faints me to think what follows. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'faint'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abulic,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- afraid,
- ailing,
- anemic,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- asthenic,
- bad,
- balmy,
- barely audible,
- below par,
- black out,
- blackout,
- bland,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- blow,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- break,
- break down,
- burn out,
- cadaverous,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- catatony,
- cave in,
- chicken,
- chloranemic,
- collapse,
- colorless,
- coma,
- come apart,
- come unstuck,
- confused,
- conk out,
- cowardly,
- crack up,
- crap out,
- critically ill,
- crumble,
- dark,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- debilitated,
- decline,
- decrescendo,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- disintegrate,
- distant,
- dizziness,
- dizzy,
- down,
- droop,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drop,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- fagged,
- fail,
- faint-voiced,
- fainthearted,
- fainting,
- faintish,
- fall senseless,
- fallow,
- faltering,
- fatigue,
- fatigued,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- feeling awful,
- feeling faint,
- feeling something terrible,
- filmy,
- fizzle out,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flag,
- flagging,
- flat,
- flickering,
- floppy,
- foggy,
- footsore,
- frail,
- frazzled,
- fuzzy,
- gasp,
- gentle,
- get tired,
- ghastly,
- giddy,
- give out,
- give way,
- go downhill,
- go soft,
- go to pieces,
- gone,
- good and tired,
- gray,
- gray out,
- grayout,
- grow weary,
- gutless,
- haggard,
- half-heard,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- hit the skids,
- hueless,
- hushed,
- hypochromic,
- ill,
- ill-defined,
- imbecile,
- imperceptible,
- impotent,
- in danger,
- inaudible,
- inconspicuous,
- indefinite,
- indiscernible,
- indisposed,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- infirm,
- invertebrate,
- jade,
- jaded,
- kayo,
- keel over,
- knockout,
- KO,
- lackluster,
- laid low,
- languid,
- languish,
- languorous,
- leaden,
- lenient,
- light-headed,
- limber,
- limp,
- lipothymia,
- lipothymy,
- listless,
- livid,
- low,
- low-profile,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- merely glimpsed,
- mild,
- misty,
- mortally ill,
- muddy,
- muffled,
- murmured,
- muted,
- muzzy,
- nerveless,
- neutral,
- nirvana,
- nirvana principle,
- not quite right,
- nothingness,
- oblivion,
- obliviousness,
- obscure,
- off-color,
- out of focus,
- out of sorts,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pant,
- pass out,
- pasty,
- peg out,
- peter out,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pine,
- pithless,
- play out,
- pliable,
- poop out,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- puff,
- puff and blow,
- ready to drop,
- rocky,
- rubbery,
- run down,
- run out,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sallow,
- sapless,
- scarcely heard,
- seedy,
- semiconsciousness,
- semivisible,
- senselessness,
- shadowy,
- sick,
- sick unto death,
- sickish,
- sickly,
- sinewless,
- sink,
- slack,
- sleep,
- slight,
- small,
- smooth,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- spineless,
- stifled,
- strengthless,
- stupor,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- succumb,
- swim,
- swoon,
- syncope,
- taken ill,
- tallow-faced,
- thin,
- tire,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- toneless,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- uncolored,
- unconsciousness,
- undefined,
- under the weather,
- undetermined,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- unsteady,
- unstrung,
- unwell,
- vague,
- vertiginous,
- vertigo,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- wavering,
- waxen,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-voiced,
- weak-willed,
- weaken,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- wear away,
- wear thin,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wheeze,
- whey-faced,
- whispered,
- white,
- wilt,
- wilting,
- woozy,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- yield