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Definition: FAINTISH |
FAINTISHAdjective1. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Weakness | Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
faintish | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FAINTISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy). (various references) | |
Turkish | oldukça zayıf. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FAINTISH": faintishness, faintishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"FAINTISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daintith, faintist, fawnish, Fianuis, Fintech. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: tahinis. | |
-2 letters: faints, faiths, finish, isatin, shanti, tahini. | |
-3 letters: antis, faint, faith, fiats, finis, hafis, hafts, hants, hints, intis, naifs, saint, saith, satin, shaft, shift, snath, stain, tains, thins. | |
-4 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, fain, fans, fash, fast, fats, fiat, fins, fish, fist, fits, haft, hant, hast, hats, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
+2 letters: chieftains. | |
+3 letters: antifashion, fishtailing. | |
+4 letters: antifashions, faintishness, pathfindings. | |
+5 letters: chieftaincies, chieftainship, humifications. | |
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