faint

Significat (English)

Adj

1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
2. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected
3. Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp
4. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy
5. Slight; minimal.
6. Sickly, so as to make a person feel faint.

Noun

1. The act of fainting, syncope.
2. The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.

Verb

1. To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
2. To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

Synonyms

swoon

weak

dim

lose consciousness

pass out

indistinct

feeble

light

syncope

black out

vague

soft

dizzy

💫

droop

obscure

collapse

blurred

languish

hazy

blackout

languid

unclear

dull

fuzzy

fade

gentle

unconsciousness

become unconscious

trance

thin

slight

pale

insensibility

faint away

infirm

sluggish

fleeting

deliquium

low

light-headed

conk

stupefaction

stupor

subtle

timid

faded

tired

😫

unconscious

faint-hearted

weakly

shadowy

quiet

be struck

poor

fail

be exhausted

convulse

dark

die

💀

drooping

droopy

exhausted

fainthearted

fainting

fatigued

flagging

frail

go out

groggy

languorous

lightheaded

limp

nausea

obscured

powerless

prostrate

run-down

small

stutter

subdued

swooning

undefined

washy

wispy

wonder

wonky

be loose

fainting fit

feel dizzy

fainting spell

be lying unconscious

be unconscious

lose conscious

sleep like tops

fall into a fit

dry up

hushed

😯

inanimate

drunk

drop

disrobe

invisible

discouraged

dig

languishing

abstruse

lazy

lifeless

die out

mirky

dicky

subjugable

little

loose

depress

lukewarm

lustreless

man

👨

minor

misty

mousy

murky

muted

abuse

nauseous

obliterate

delicate

death

💀

oppressive

debilitated

dead

💀

petty

darkness

be weak

crepuscle

puny

pusillanimous

put out

queer

quench

cryptic

reel

remote

rub out

subduable

scanty

scarce

sensitive

crepuscule

sheepish

sickly

sink down

slack

slake

slender

cowardly

slim

cool

🆒

lusterless

snuff

snuff out

coma

sore

stagger

stealthy

stumble

cloudy

☁️

stupefied

stupid

chickenhearted

be senseless

apsychia

subtile

calm

switch off

burn out

absent-minded

blurry

tender

tenuous

tepid

blow out

think

🤔

blockhead

timorous

blear

blackface

turn off

twilight

unadventurous

unburnished

bewildered

become thin

bad

👎

loose one’s consciousness

unenthusiastic

unlighted

unnerved

unsaturated

attenuated

vagueness

venial

vulnerable

feel nausea

attack

👊

weaken

weakened

assault

weedy

wilt

wimp

wipe out

become onconscious

wither

withered

lost consciousness

become senseless

wretched

adynamic

become pale

be discouraged

causing to sink

be stunned

be tired

blank out

blate

assail

become desperate

fainting-fit

syncopal

feel sick

apoplexy

extinguish

erase

fade away

enfeebled

delete

lose heart

enfeeble

loss of consciousness

fall

fall apart

take a turn

enervated

feint

fellow

few

🤏

flabby

weak-willed

elusive

flickering

forceless

fragile

hanging down

frosted

dusky

dusk

giddy

give away

gloomy

ambiguous

grayish

lack out

have a stroke

haze

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/feɪnt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: faynt

Inherited from anglès mitjà: fainten

In summary

From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.