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All faint synonyms

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verb faint

  • black out β€” If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
  • swoon β€” to faint; lose consciousness.
  • succumb β€” to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
  • keel over β€” Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
  • pass out β€” to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • flicker β€” to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
  • collapse β€” If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
  • drop β€” a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • fade β€” to lose brightness or vividness of color.
  • fall β€” to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
  • fail β€” to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • weaken β€” to make weak or weaker.
  • languish β€” to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
  • fall down β€” to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.

noun faint

  • blackout β€” A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
  • unconsciousness β€” not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
  • dizziness β€” having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy; vertiginous.
  • insensibility β€” incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
  • knockout β€” Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
  • stupor β€” suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
  • syncope β€” Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
  • vertigo β€” a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.

adjective faint

  • pale β€” light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
  • weak β€” not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
  • faded β€” to lose brightness or vividness of color.
  • dim β€” DIM statement
  • indistinct β€” not distinct; not clearly marked or defined: indistinct markings.
  • feeble β€” physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
  • unclear β€” free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
  • shadowy β€” resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc.: shadowy outlines.
  • hazy β€” characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
  • distant β€” far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
  • muffled β€” to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
  • soft β€” yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
  • delicate β€” Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
  • dull β€” not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • far-off β€” distant; remote.
  • gentle β€” kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
  • inaudible β€” not audible; incapable of being heard.
  • mild β€” amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
  • muted β€” silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
  • remote β€” far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
  • slight β€” small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • soothing β€” that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • stifled β€” to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
  • vague β€” not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
  • aside β€” If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you.
  • bated β€” (of breath) held
  • bleached β€” made lighter in colour
  • blurred β€” to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance: The windows were blurred with soot.
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