faint /fānt/

1. Dim
2. Lacking distinctness
3. Not bright or having any force
4. Lacking in strength (archaic)
5. Weak in spirit (archaic)
6. Lacking courage (archaic)
7. Done in a feeble way
8. Inclined to lose consciousness momentarily
9. Sickly-smelling, oppressive (archaic)

1. To lose consciousness momentarily, to swoon
2. To become feeble or weak (archaic)
3. To lose strength, colour, etc (archaic)
4. To fade or decay (archaic)
5. To vanish (archaic)
6. To lose courage or spirit (archaic)

To render faint

A swoon

faintˈed adjective (Milton)

Exhausted

faintˈing noun and adjective

faintˈish adjective

Slightly faint

faintˈishness noun

faintˈly adverb

faintˈness noun

1. Lack of strength
2. Feebleness of colour, light, etc
3. Dejection

faints plural noun

Impure spirit produced at the beginning and end of distillation (also feints)

faintˈy adjective

Faintish

faintˈ-heart noun and adjective

faint-heartˈed adjective

1. Spiritless, lacking courage
2. Timorous

faint-heartˈedly adverb

faint-heartˈedness noun

not have the faintest (idea or notion) (informal)

Not to have the least idea

• likeable
• likeableness
• likeably
• like a cat on a hot tin roof
• like a cat on hot bricks
• like a charm
• like a dog's dinner
• like a dose of salts
• like a dying duck
• like a headless chicken
• like a house on afire
• like a house on fire
• like a lamb to the slaughter
• like anything
• like a shot
• like a streak
• like a tansy
• like a ton of bricks
• like banging one's head against a brick wall
• like billy-o
• like billy-oh
• like blazes
• like buggery
• like clockwork
• like crazy