Definition of faint

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Faint (superl.) 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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Smorsato :: Smorsato (a.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.
Faint :: Faint (superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound..
Scotoscope :: Scotoscope (n.) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick..
Syncope :: Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..
Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.
Nebula :: Nebula (n.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope..
Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Swoon :: Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away..
Faint :: Faint (superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance..
Faintness :: Faintness (n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
Faint :: Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Fainted :: Fainted (imp. & p. p.) of Fain.
Glimpse :: Glimpse (n.) A faint idea; an inkling.
Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony..
Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..
Dead-hearted :: Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless..
Faints :: Faints (n.pl.) The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil..
Adumbrative :: Adumbrative (a.) Faintly representing; typical.
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