faint
adjective
[ feɪnt ]
• (of a sight, smell, or sound) barely perceptible.
• "the faint murmur of voices"
Similar:
indistinct,
vague,
unclear,
indefinite,
ill-defined,
obscure,
imperceptible,
hardly noticeable,
hardly detectable,
unobtrusive,
pale,
light,
faded,
bleached,
quiet,
muted,
muffled,
stifled,
subdued,
feeble,
weak,
thin,
whispered,
murmured,
scarcely audible,
scarcely perceptible,
hard to hear,
hard to make out,
low,
soft,
gentle,
• feeling weak and dizzy and close to losing consciousness.
• "the heat made him feel faint"
Similar:
dizzy,
giddy,
light-headed,
muzzy,
weak,
weak at the knees,
unsteady,
shaky,
wobbly,
off-balance,
reeling,
woozy,
woolly,
woolly-headed,
dopey,
trembly,
all of a quiver,
vertiginous,
faint
verb
• lose consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain.
• "I fainted from loss of blood"
Similar:
pass out,
lose consciousness,
fall unconscious,
black out,
collapse,
flake out,
keel over,
conk out,
zonk out,
drop,
go out,
go out like a light,
swoon,
faint
noun
• a sudden loss of consciousness.
• "she hit the floor in a dead faint"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘feigned’, also ‘feeble, cowardly’, surviving in faint heart): from Old French faint, past participle of faindre (see feign). Compare with feint1.