Faint

Definition: Faint

Faint

Adjective

1. Barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "faint colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma".

2. Lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood".

3. Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice".

4. Weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep".

5. Indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea".

6. Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady".

Noun

1. A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.

Verb

1. Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.

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Date "faint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

19th Century Satire

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Faint

Contempt

Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful).

Cowardice

Poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear; white feather, faint heart; cold feet , yellow streak.

Detraction

Phrase: "damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer"; another lie nailed to the counter; "cut men's throats with whisperings"; "foul whisperings are abroad" "soft-buzzing slander"; "virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes".

Disapprobation

Animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; "hint a fault and hesitate dislike"; not to be able to say much for.

Endearment

Phrase: " faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion ".

Fatigue

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb.

Impotence

Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail).

Smallness

Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.

Stammering

Noun: inarticulateness; stammering; Verb: hesitation; Verb: impediment in one's speech; traulism; whisper; (faint sound); lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto; (want of voice); broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.

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.

Crosswords: Faint

Welsh (as many, how many).

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I never faint because I am not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

I feel like I'm going to faint! (How to Steal a Million; writing credit: George Bradshaw; Harry Kurnitz)

Faint hearts never won fair lady (Robin Hood; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Larry Clemmons)

Well, I'm guessing it's because I'm a klutz and I'm frail, and I'd keep forgetting to write down my name, or I'd faint before reaching the exam hall and be hospitalized (Rabu Hina; writing credit: Kurou Hazuki)

Faint Heart (1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Faint Cold Fear (reference)

• Detection and Spectrometry of Faint Light (reference)

• Faint Chance (reference)

• Faint Heart Never Kissed a Pig (reference)

• Faint Praise: A Jane Lawless Mystery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has ... Credit: NASA.

This Hubble telescope image [right] reveals a faint galaxy, the home of a quasar. The wealth ... Credit: NASA.

A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day ... Credit: NASA.

Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?). (Produced with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA.

Betelgeuse, the brightest star in the constellation Orion. (Produced with ESA's Faint Object Camera (FOC), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA.

Mira A, also known as Omicron Ceti, in the constellation Cetus. (Produced with ESA's Faint Object Camera (FOC), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA.

True color image of faint blue galaxies. Credit: NASA.

Pluto and its satellite Charon as taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA.

Pluto as taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA.

Map of Pluto derived from data from ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The word was discovered, and with a faint smile pushed away

Jean Valjean felt like a man who is just about to faint.

A faint marshlight struggled upwards from all the ordure through the bristling greygreen weeds

The smooth surface of the meat was crinkling up and turning a faint brown

This gave me some faint hopes of relief, although I was not able to imagine how it could be brought about

It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks of morning

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Dizziness or feeling faint. (references)

If blood glucose falls too low, a person can faint. (references)

Sometimes the rashes are so faint that they are not noticed. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

However, an uncertain outlook for conditions in Zimbabwe make it a play for those not faint of heart. (references)

Political Economy

Lebanon

Following 2 years of recession, the economy is showing faint signs of recovery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "faint": a faint gleam of light ♦ be faint ♦ become faint ♦ cause to faint ♦ damn with faint praise ♦ dead faint ♦ faint effort ♦ faint feeling ♦ faint from hunger ♦ faint hope ♦ faint impression ♦ feel faint ♦ feel faint with hunger ♦ go faint ♦ grow faint ♦ in a dead faint ♦ in a faint ♦ in a faint voice. Additional references.

Beginning with "faint": faint-heart, Faint-hearted, Faint-heartedly, Faint-heartedness, faint-hearts, faint-object, faint-of-heart, faint-shriek.

Afrikaans

swak (light, weak), flou word (swoon). (various references)

Albanian

zalisem (swoon), zali (fainting, swoon), vilani (fainting, swoon), të fikët (swoon, syncope, unconsciousness), ligështohem (droop, fail, falter, weaken), i zbetë (bloodless, lurid, mealy, sallow, wan, watery, white), i vakët (lukewarm, tepid, warmish), i mekur (feeble, languorous), i frikur (faint-heart, faint-hearted, poor spirited, tremulant, tremulous), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), bie të fikët (black out, lose consciousness, swoon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منخفض (depressed, depression, fading, low, soft), ‏مصاب بدوار (dizzy), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏خافت (dim, low, soft, subdued), ‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed), ‏اغمى عليه (conk, pass out, swoon), ‏أصاب بإغماء, ‏ثقيل الوطأة (close, grievous), ‏بهت (dim, fade, pale), ‏باهت (dim, dull, indistinct, lank, pale, pallid, wan, washed out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), губя съзнание, отмалял, отпаднал (languorous, low, washed out, weak), отпадам (drop out, fall off, languish, sag, sink, wilt), немощен (bedridden, decrepit, doddered, frail, infirm, shaky, unable), бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, doughy, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, thin, wan, washy, watery), призлява ми, припадък (fainting fit, fit, insensibility, paroxysm, seizure, swoon, syncope), припадам (conk, pass out, peg out, swoon), плах (furtive, mousey, nervy, pigeon-hearted, pusillanimous, stealthy, timid, tremulous, wan). (various references)

Catalan

desmaiar-se (swoon), desmai (swoon). (various references)

Chinese 

微弱 (feeble, weak). (various references)

Czech

slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary), pozbýt vìdomí (loose consciousness), omdlít (black out, feint, go out, pass out, swoon), nejasný (abstruse, ambiguous, dim, dimmish, equivocal, fuzzy, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, obscure, stolid, tenuous, unclear, vague, woolly), mdloba (faintness, swoon, syncope), mdlý (dull, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sick, sickly, torpid, vapid, wan, watery), malý (little, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, slender, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young), chabý (frail, lame, threadbare, torpid, vapid, wan, weedy). (various references)

Danish

svag (light, weak). (various references)

Dutch

zwak (light, lightly, weak, weakly). (various references)

Esperanto

sveno (swoon), sveni (swoon), malforta (light, weak). (various references)

Faeroese

falla í óvit (swoon), veikur (fuse, light, weak, wick), svíma (swoon), dána (swoon). (various references)

Finnish

pyörtyä (pass out, swoon). (various references)

French

s'évanouir (fade, fall), faible (failing, failure). (various references)

German

schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, flimsily, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, obscurely, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, slightly, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weak, weakly, wishy washy), ohnmacht (blackout, helplessness, impotence, palsy, powerlessness, swoon), matt (checkmate, cloudy, dead, dim, dull, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lame, languid, languidly, limp, mat, mate, opal, opaque, Pearl, slack, subdued, tired, vapid, wan, wanly, weak, weary), ohnmächtig werden (black out, pass out, swoon, to faint, to keel over), in ohnmacht fallen (swoon), flau (depressed, flat, insipid, light, listless, queasy, slack, sluggish, weak). (various references)

Greek 

λιποθυμώ (black out, flake out, pass out, swoon). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללהות (become weary), לעלף (cause to faint, frighten), לאבוד חושיו, לאבד הכרה (blackout, lose consciousness, swoon), לכשול (fail, fall, stagger, stumble, succumb, waver), להתעלף (pass out, swoon), עמום (abstruse, dim, frosting, fuzzy, muzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague), חלש (feeble, flaccid, frail, run down, slight, weak), כושל (abortive, weak), כהה (dark, deep, dim, dull, obscure). (various references)

Hungarian

gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), ájulás (collapse, coma, fainting, faintness, swoon, syncope), erőtlen (anaemic, emasculate, emasculated, extenuate, feckless, languid, limp, low, nerveless, shaky, watery), ájultság, aléltság, alig érezhető, alig észrevehető (blurred, inconspicuous, insensible), alig hallható, alig látható (inconspicuous), bágyadt (he is in low water, languid, languorous, sickly, slack), elmosódott (blurred, blurry, foggy, slurred, smudgy, washed out), lankadt (droopy, languid, languorous, slack, swooned, swooning, wearied, withered), eszméletlenség (coma, dead faint, stupor, unconsciousness), eszméletvesztés (black-out), halk (inaudible, low, quiet, soft, soft spoken, still, subdued), halovány (pale, wan), kényszeredett (abashment, constrained, enforced, scrogged, self-conscious, stiff, wry), lagymatag (floppy, half hearted, half-hearted, laodicean, tepid), elhaló (decaying, swooning). (various references)

Icelandic

veikur (ill, light, sick, unwell, weak). (various references)

Indonesian

redam (dim, hushed, muffled, vague), pengecut (abject, coward, dastard, faint-hearted, poltroon, sneak, unmanly, white-livered), loyo (exhausted, weak). (various references)

Italian

debole (dim, failing, feeble, flimsy, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak point, weakly), svenirsi (swoon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

淡い (fleeting, light, pale). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たえだえ (feeble), きぜつ (swoon), しっしん (eczema, stupefaction, swoon, trance), びじゃく (feeble, weak), ぼんやり (absent-minded, block-head, dim, vague), ほのか (few, indistinct, stupid), かすか (dim, hazy, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), こんとう (last winter, next winter, swoon, this winter), あわい (fleeting, light, pale), もうろう (ambiguous, dim, hazy, indistinct, vague). (various references)

Korean 

감도불량한. (various references)

Lombard

gnecch (light, weak). (various references)

Malay

lemah (light, weak). (various references)

Manx

neeal (ashen, ashen colour, ashy, aspect, aspect of face, cloud, complexion, nap, nebula, swoon), goll neeal, goaill neeal. (various references)

Maya

hooch (fire ant, to faint). (various references)

Norwegian

svak (dim, feeble, frail), matt (dim, dull), besvime. (various references)

Papiamen

suak (light, weak), desmañá (swoon), desmaña (swoon), debil (light, weak). (various references)

Pig Latin

aintfay.(various references)

Polish

słaby (light, weak). (various references)

Portuguese

fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), débil (broken, enervate, failing, fragile, frail, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly), desmaio (fit, insensibility, swoon), desmaiar (collapse, drop, pass out, swoon). (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint sound, faintish, 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)

Scottish

fann (light, weak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

onesvestiti se (pass out), nesvestica (dizziness, unconsciousness). (various references)

Spanish

desmayarse (pass out, swoon), desmayo (fainting, insensibility, swoon, turn), débil (bad, dud, feeble, flimsy, ill, infirm, lame duck, light, weak). (various references)

Sranan

swaki (light, weak), loli (light, weak). (various references)

Swahili

hafifu (light, miserable, poor, weak). (various references)

Swedish

svimma (swoon), svag (feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, milk and water, off, reckling, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak-kneed, weakly), matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, languid, lustreless, mat, tame, weak, wishy washy). (various references)

Tagalog

mahinà (light, slow, weak). (various references)

Thai

เฉื่อย (slack), เป็นลม (blacken out, swoon), เจือจาง (dilute), อ่อนกำลัง (feeble), ภาวะของคนที่เป็นลม. (various references)

Turkish

bitkin düşmek, ürkek (fainthearted, fearful, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, scary, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous), acíz (helpless, light, weak), bayılma (blackout, fainting, swoon, syncopal), bayılmak (adore, be a sucker for, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be fond of, be taken by, be taken with, blackout, commune with oneself, conk, enthuse, fall for, lose consciousness, pass out, swoon), baygın (comatose, fainted, heavy, insensible, languid, languishing, languorous, senseless, unconscious), baygınlık (coma, fainting, insensibility, stupor, swoon, syncopal, syncope, unconsciousness), belli belirsiz (dreaming, dreamy, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, indistinctly, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, shadowy, slight, slightly, soft, tentative, vaguely), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), zayıf (atonic, bad mark, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), cesaretsiz (dispirited, fainthearted, spineless, spiritless, timid, weak-spirited), hali kalmamak (be exhausted, droop, feel faint, languish), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sick, sickly, wan, washy, watery), uçuk (cold sore, fever blister, herpes, pale, pastel), bir parça (a bit, a bit of a, a little, a piece of, dollop, dosage, dose, element, ounce, piece, some, something of, somewhat, soupcon). (various references)

Turkmen 

seсselemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), слабнути (attenuate, break up, droop, fail, let up, tone down), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, featureless, foggy, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly), непритомність (insensibility, senselessness, swoon, syncope, unconsciousness), непритомніти (pass out, swoon). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ngất, không rõ chóng mặt, hay ngất oi bức, cơn ngất. (various references)

Welsh

llwfrhau, llewygu (swoon), llewyg (swoon), llesmeirio (swoon), llesmair (swoon), llesga/u (languish, weaken), llesg (feeble, languid, sluggish), haint (pestilence), dyddfu (flag, pine), diffygiol (defective, weary), diffygio (fail, weary). (various references)

æger, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, defectio, defectione, defectionem, languidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "faint": fainted, fainter, fainters, faintest, fainthearted, faintheartedly, faintheartedness, faintheartednesses, fainting, faintish, faintishness, faintishnesses, faintly, faintness, faintnesses, faints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Faint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afent, afin, afine, afinit, afit, baint, caint, faind, Faine, Faini, fains, fainte, fairn, fairt, fanet, Fani, Fania, Fanidi, fant, fante, fanth, fanti, fasin, faunt, fawin, fawnt, fayn, Fayot, fdaint, feignt, feigt, feinty, feynt, fian, Fiant, Filinto, finit, finth, fixint, foant, foent, foint, frint, Fuent, fuint, laint, maint, qaint, raint, vaint, waint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: anti, fain, fiat, naif, tain.

-2 letters: aft, ain, ait, ani, ant, fan, fat, fin, fit, nit, tan, tin.

-3 letters: ai, an, at, fa, if, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: faints, fating, infant.

+2 letters: affiant, antefix, antifat, antiflu, antifur, defiant, faction, fainest, fainted, fainter, faintly, fanatic, fantail, fasting, fatling, fatting, fontina, frantic, fustian, hafting, indraft, infanta, infante, infants, infarct, inflate, infract, ingraft, liftman, rafting, ratfink, tailfan, tiffany, unfaith, wafting.

+3 letters: affiants, affinity, antefixa, antifoam, antileft, antilife, crafting, drafting, faceting, factions, fagoting, faineant, fainters, faintest, fainting, faintish, faithing, fanatics, fanciest, fanlight, fantails, fantasia, fantasie, farthing, fastings, fatlings, faulting, fawniest, feasting, fetation, figurant, filament, finalist, finality, fixating, fixation, flatiron, flatline, flatling, flatting, flippant, floating, fontinas, fountain, fraction, fumigant, fustians, grafting, indrafts, infantas, infantes, infantry, infarcts, inflated, inflater, inflates, inflator, infracts, ingrafts, manifest, quantify, ratfinks, sanctify, shafting, staffing, strafing, tailfans, trainful, transfix, unfaiths.