| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Faint.[Websters]
2. To be flatted or matted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have weaked, slacked, loosed, lowed or tendered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be bleared or muddied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have gentled, tamed, quieted or mellowed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have obscured or blacked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have sicked or invalided. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have shorted or scanted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have collapsed or swooned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have drooped or sagged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb faint.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (faintly) | 1. To a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren't even faintly true".[Wordnet]. 2. In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.[Websters]. 3. In a flat or drab manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a sluggish or supine manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a spiritless, weak or insubstantial manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a sheepish, yellow or fearsome manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a shamefaced or crestfallen manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a diffident or afraid manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a short or deficient manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective faint.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (faint) | 1. Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.[Wordnet]. 2. 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.[Websters]. 3. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.[Websters]. 4. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.[Websters]. 5. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: fainting, fainted, faints, fainter, fainters, faintingly and faintedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being muddied.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being unconscious or senseless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being languid, languorous, lackadaisical or nerveless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being matted, dull, lifeless or dim. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being cadaverous, emaciated, lean, thin or gaunt. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being swooning.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FAINTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: faint
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.. | 2: [Adjective] Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.. | 3: [Adjective] Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.. | 4: [Adjective] Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.. | 5: [Adjective] Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.. | 6: [Adjective] Cowardly; timorous. A faint heart never wins a fair lady.. | 7: [Adjective] Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.. | 8: [Adjective] Dejected; depressed; dispirited. My heart is faint. Lam. 1.. | 9: [Verb] To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away. he fainted for loss of blood. On hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.. | 10: [Verb] To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak. If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way. Mark 8.. | 11: [Verb] To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit. Let not your hearts faint. Deut. 20. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. 24.. | 12: [Verb] To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze on them, faint before the eye.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | A woman's bluff. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Geography | Faint is geographically located in Malawi. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 14.983333 degrees South latitude and 34.75 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "Faint harts faire ladies neuer win." (1569.) 2: "The bold a way will find or make." 3: Faint Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. 4: King: Orpheus and Eurydice. 5: Philobiblion Society's Publications (1827, p. 22). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. (references) | 3: [Adjective] Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 243b. do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?. (references) | 4: [Adjective] Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed. "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Robert Burns - To Dr. Blackjack. (references) | 5: [Noun] (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. (references) | 6: [Noun] The act of fainting. (references) | 7: [Verb] (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of a suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). (references) |
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Common Expressions: faint
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Faint (song) | Faint is a single by the Nu metal band Linkin Park, the second one from their 2003 sophomore album Meteora. The single was also released in that year. This song was released as two singles, Faint 1 and Faint 2, they differed in cover color and tracks (Faint 1 is blue, and Faint 2 is a brownish green). Faint 1 was also released as a Canadian version that had the tracks, but did not include the Music Video. The cover of Faint 1 is shown on the right. (references) | ||
| Faint blue galaxy | A faint blue galaxy is a distant, irregularly shaped galaxy in which star formation occurs at a high rate. From the late 1970s it became apparent in deep galaxy surveys that a population of these blue galaxies appeared, not present in the local universe. (references) | ||
| Faint Object Camera | The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope until 2002. It was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. (references) | ||
| Faint Object Spectrograph | The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1997 it was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. (references) | ||
| Faint young sun paradox | The faint young sun paradox describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the sun's output would be only 70% as intense during that epoch as it is during the modern epoch. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: faint
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Damn with Faint Praise | Literature | 1: To praise with such a voice and in such measured terms as to show plainly secret disapproval. 2: "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 3: And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." 4: Pope: Epistle to Arbuthnot. 5: Easily discouraged; afraid to venture. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Faint impression | Metallurgy | Lack of clarity of design on figured glass. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Faint pleader | Law | FAINT PLEADER. A false, fraudulent, or collusory manner of pleading, to the deception of a third person. 3 E. I., c. 19. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: faint | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Faint (song) | 21 | Faint (song) | 21 | |
| The Faint | 18 | Faint blue galaxy | 4 | |
| Faint Object Camera | 9 | Faint hope clause | 5 | |
| Faint Object Spectrograph | 6 | Faint little ball | 2 | |
| Faint hope clause | 5 | Faint Object Camera | 9 | |
| Faint young sun paradox | 5 | Faint Object Spectrograph | 6 | |
| Not for the Faint of Heart! | 4 | Faint young sun paradox | 5 | |
| Faint blue galaxy | 4 | Not for the Faint of Heart! | 4 | |
| Faint little ball | 2 | The Faint | 18 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
