Definition of faint

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Faint (superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, Faint heart ne'er won fair lady..

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Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Faint :: Faint (v. i.) 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..
Fainthearted :: Fainthearted (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Faint :: Faint (n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.
Smorsato :: Smorsato (a.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
Moschatel :: Moschatel (n.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot..
Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
Feeble :: Feeble (superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion..
Microcoustic :: Microcoustic (n.) An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person..
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..
Goneness :: Goneness (n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger..
Wanhope :: Wanhope (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..
Syncope :: Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting..
Sweltered :: Swelt (v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal..
Fade :: Fade (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color..
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