| 释义 |
faintish, a.|ˈfeɪntɪʃ|
[f. faint a. + -ish.]
1.
†a. Rather weak or feeble. Obs.
b. Affected with a feeling somewhat like that of fainting. Also of the feeling itself.
1667H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 501 Neither does all that sweat make us faintish. 1683Tryon Way to Health 82 Those Cattel that feed on Grass are weak and faintish in comparison of those..fed with Hay and Corn. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 224 He continued faintish for some days. 1834Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1846 II. 267, I wax faintish at the big squat man. 1848J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. ii. (1853) 288 Charles had a faintish feeling come over him. 1856Lever Martins of Cro'M. 128 A qualm of faintish sickness.
2. Rather indistinct, hardly perceptible.
1712Nereides 35 The Water-Lillies are a faintish sweet. 1713Rowe Jane Shore v. i, Upon her Cheek a faintish Flush was spread. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. i. 4 Then in a faintish, but angry voice, ‘begone from my door’. 1767Ehret in Phil. Trans. LVII. 114 The young leaves..are of a faintish green. 1866Carlyle E. Irving in Remin. (1881) 268 To the Louvre..got rather faintish good of the pictures there. |