faintadjective
uk/feɪnt/us/feɪnt/faint adjective (SLIGHT)
B2 not strong or clear; slight:
a faint sound/noise/smell
The lamp gave out a faint glow.
She gave me a faint smile of recognition.
There's not the faintest hope of ever finding him.
She bears a faint resemblance to my sister.
I have a faint suspicion that you may be right!
not have the faintest idea C2 informal
used to emphasize that you do not know something:
"Is she going to stay?" "I haven't the faintest idea."
I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about!
More examples
- The first faint signs of an agreement began to glimmer through.
- She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
- They said the printing was too faint to reproduce well.
- She felt a faint stirring of envy when she heard that one of her colleagues had been promoted.
- A gap between the curtains admitted the faint glow of a street lamp.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- frailty
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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Unaware
faint adjective (UNWELL)
feel faint
C2 to feel weak, as if you are about to become unconscious:
She felt faint with hunger.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing consciousness
- black out
- blackout
- collapse
- coma
- concuss
- concussed
- concussion
- conk out
- go out like a light idiom
- insensible
- knock
- knock sb out
- oblivion
- out
- pass
- see
- see stars idiom
- stupor
- swoon
- syncope
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Idiom(s)
faint heart never won fair lady/maiden
faintverb [ I ]
uk/feɪnt/us/feɪnt/B2 to suddenly become unconscious for a short time, usually falling down:
He faints at the sight of blood.
I nearly fainted in the heat.
She took one look at the hypodermic needle and fainted (dead) away (= became unconscious immediately).
More examples
- His face went pale and he looked as if he might faint.
- You gave us a real scare when you fainted, you know.
- He caught me at the precise moment that I fainted.
- By the middle of the next day she was almost fainting from hunger.
- I stood up too quickly and very nearly fainted.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing consciousness
- black out
- blackout
- collapse
- coma
- concuss
- concussed
- concussion
- conk out
- go out like a light idiom
- insensible
- knock
- knock sb out
- oblivion
- out
- pass
- see
- see stars idiom
- stupor
- swoon
- syncope
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faintnoun [ S ]
uk/feɪnt/us/feɪnt/the act of suddenly becoming unconscious:
On receiving the news, she fell into a dead faint.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing consciousness
- black out
- blackout
- collapse
- coma
- concuss
- concussed
- concussion
- conk out
- go out like a light idiom
- insensible
- knock
- knock sb out
- oblivion
- out
- pass
- see
- see stars idiom
- stupor
- swoon
- syncope
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