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.
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Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.
--Guardian.
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If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by
the way. --Mark viii.
8.
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2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to
become depressed or despondent.
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If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength
is small. --Prov. xxiv.
10.
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3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
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Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before
the eye. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly;
dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair
lady." --Old Proverb.
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3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the
senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible;
weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
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4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not
exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint
efforts; faint resistance.
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The faint prosecution of the war. --Sir J.
Davies.
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Faint \Faint\, n.
The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a
swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
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The saint,
Who propped the Virgin in her faint. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Faint \Faint\, v. t.
To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to
weaken. [Obs.]
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It faints me to think what follows. --Shak.
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faint
adj 1: 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"
2: 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,
shadowy, vague, wispy]
3: lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise";
"faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
[syn: feeble]
4: 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: light, swooning,
light-headed, lightheaded]
5: indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue
to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"
6: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart
ne'er won fair lady" [syn: fainthearted, timid]
n : a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient
blood to the brain [syn: swoon, syncope, deliquium]
v : pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due
to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: conk, swoon,
pass out]
WordNet (r) 2.0
317 Moby Thesaurus words for "faint":
KO, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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