Faint

What do we mean by faint?

Done with little strength or vigor; feeble. adjective

So weak as to be difficult to perceive; adjective

Lacking clarity or distinctness. adjective

Small in degree or amount; meager. adjective

Lacking conviction, boldness, or courage; timid. adjective

Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak. adjective

An abrupt, usually brief loss of consciousness, generally associated with failure of normal blood circulation. noun

To fall into a usually brief state of unconsciousness. intransitive verb

To weaken in purpose or spirit. intransitive verb

To become weak in spirit; lose spirit or courage; sink into dejection; despond; droop.

To become faint, weak, or exhausted in body; fail in strength or vigor; languish; droop; especially, to fall into a swoon; lose sensation and consciousness; swoon: sometimes with away.

To become faint to the view; become gradually dim or indistinct; fade; vanish.

To make faint; weaken; depress; dishearten; deject.

Feigned; simulated.

Having or showing little force or earnestness; not forcible or vigorous; not active; wanting strength, energy, or heartiness: as, a faint resistance; a faint exertion.

Having little spirit or animation; dispirited; dejected; depressed.

Having little courage; cowardly; timorous.

Having an intense feeling of weakness or exhaustion; inclined to swoon: as, faint with hunger; faint and sore with travel.

Weak by reason of smallness or slenderness; small; slender.

The act of fainting, syncope.

The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.

Words that are spelled similarly to faint:
faint, paint, fain, saint, taint, feint, flint, fait, aint, fint, haint, daint, fant, maint, fains, faine, frint, faing, caint, faist.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word faint:
tinge, suffusion, striae, spectrograph, unaided, fuscous, tint, nebulae, purplish, dorsum, costal, indistinct, paler, blackish, brighter, dots, blotches, parallax, pinkish, stigmata, bluish, whitish, rufous, galaxies, cloudy, oblique, hubble, odor, nebula, transverse, glow, suffused, whorl, darker, brightest, fascia, dwarfs, obliquely, suture, magnitude, stripe, apical, pale, supernova, yellowish, aperture, constellation, forewing, curved, spiral, traces, shade, underside, apex, buff, telescope, spots, stigma, naked, veins, brightness, anal, reddish, costa, dorsal, stripes, basal, longitudinal, irregular, marginal, smell, fins, dwarf, halo, comet, dark, grey, lip, scales, posterior, hind, outline, galaxy, praise, dot, emission, patch, larvae, spot, spectral, hardly, throat, visible, rings, vein, companion, margin, eye, fin, fold.

Words that rhyme with faint:
quaint, paint, constraint, complaint, restraint, saint, taint, feint, acquaint, plaint, haint, daint, maynt, straint, bleynte, repaint, latex paint, patron saint, plaster saint, fingerpaint, war paint, oil paint, head restraint, acrylic paint, poster paint, casein paint, coat of paint, indian paint, in restraint, jonassaint.

Adjectives that are often used to describe faint:
old, languid, subtle, amorous, soft.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective faint:
smile, light, sound, voice, hope, glow, traces, smell, idea, odor, praise, lines, echo, line, sounds, cry, stars, tinge, scent, glimmer, heart, color, shadow, trace, outline, breeze, flush, noise, gleam, murmur, resemblance, odour, colour, echoes, suggestion, perfume, blush, sigh, image, whisper, reflection, trail, heartedness, hopes, hint, star, tint, recollection, impression, streaks, shadows, note, outlines, haze, pink, memory, fragrance, breath, signs, ray, aroma, objects, music, hum, hearted, feeling, mist, streak, hearts, rustle, lights, click, band, touch, conception, indications, voices, suspicion, rays, cries, moonlight, cloud, whiff, marks, air, flicker, spots, images, wind, notion, laugh, bands, attempt, scream, indication, moan, rustling, tone.

Consonant match to faint:
font, feint, fount, fent, fant, fonte, fante, fendt.

Words that sound like faint:
faint, feint, font, fant, fount, feigned, funt, fent, fint, fonte, fendt, find, found, fate, fiend, fund, fond, feign, fend, fait, fein, fined, fete, feind, finned, fain, famed, fanned, phoned, fane, faints, fainter, feigns, fand, feight, fayette, fawned, phane, fayne, faine, fanes, fonde, fainty, funned, fains, fayt, pfund, funde, fnt, feyne, fomt, veinte, fat, fame, fade, fan, fans, faced, fanny, fanta, fauna, faught, faun, fames, fannie, fany, faid, faut, fatt, fann, fanged, faim, fana, faat, fani, fauns, fano, faen, fanni, fante, faughn, fanno, fanti, fanney, faan, faithed, faune, fan out, fanart, faner, fahn, famd, -phone, fanu, faunae, fahed, faena, fauni, fameux, -phany.