(superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
(superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
(superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
(superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
(n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
(v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
(n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
(n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
(v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
(2) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(3) Implications of these findings for fear and fainting acquisition and its relation to avoidance were discussed.
(4) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(5) One subject reported slight transient faintness and visual blurring after 20 mg of the drug.
(6) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(7) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(8) Positive specimens produce a faint pink deposit which is better visualised by silver enhancement which gives an intense black colour.
(9) The pI 5.0 component, designated F-5.0, was faint yellow, with a broad absorption in the range of 400-450 nm, while the pI 7.5 component, designated F-7.5, was colorless and did not absorb in that range.
(10) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(11) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
(12) The study has revealed a faintly pronounced inverse correlation between the degree of avidity of serum antibodies and the level of infectious antigenemia.
(13) The intravenous injection of 5-HT relieves established migraine headache, but causes side-effects of nausea, faintness, paraesthesia and dyspnoea.
(14) Uptake in the other benign lesions such as trauma of the ribs, spondylosis deformans, and arthrosis deformans was rather faint.
(15) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
(16) The tec gene is expressed mainly in liver and faintly in heart, kidney and ovary.
(17) All lymphomas and plasmacytomas were negative with MAK-6 and CAM-5.2, however, AE1:AE3 faintly stained two of three plasmacytomas and two of the seven large cell lymphomas.
(18) In the arterial blood, ESR signal of HbNO with faint hyperfine structure was detected.
(19) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(20) Total RNP contained more small subunit proteins than 110S RNP; 7 proteins spots were distinct, 10 protein spots were faint and 8 protein spots were missing.
Swoon
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises.
(2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
(3) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(4) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
(5) Some critics have sneered that Theodore, who writes letters for a living, can't actually construct a sentence, but that, surely is the point: there is no true emotion in this modern world, and it seems unlikely that Jonze would expect anyone to swoon at Theodore's attempt at a love letter which includes the sentence, "The world is on my shitlist."
(6) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(7) Where F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 source novel gave us the world in a soap bubble, weightless and gorgeous, Luhrmann's Gatsby is more akin to a mirrorball, a spinning, fractured dazzle of wild revels and swooning courtships.
(8) Before Swoon, he'd already made a name for himself as the director of They Are Lost to Vision Altogether, a superior piece of Aids agit-prop shaped by his experiences as an activist.
(9) But instead of swooning at these facts, Okoye is modest, stating only that he cares for the event and is determined to raise its profile.
(10) We were still swooning at her brio when rioting broke out across Britain and she made headlines again, calling for Facebook and Twitter to be closed down during civil unrest .
(11) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
(12) It's why John Wesley was able to garner great crowds in his open-air meetings in late 18th-century England: vast, ecstatic audiences which even frightened him with their swooning, groaning, swaying paroxysm, a "contrary vision" and a counter-revolution, as EP Thompson wrote, against the shackles of industrialisation and enclosed lands.
(13) Since then, the Red Sox have gone through a lot of turmoil (the injury-plagued 2010 season, the disastrous September swoon in 2011, everything that Bobby Valentine did in 2012).
(14) So, as others are doing in this, the year of the bush, I decided it was time to stop swooning, and wake up.
(15) Because we swooned over the idea of the United States of Europe, hoping that people would forget that we're Germans … We felt liberated at the idea of being able to be Europeans.
(16) Frazier deservedly won the decision – but the fact that Ali somehow gathered himself to his feet and attempted to fight back not only had the fans round the world swooning at the heroism, but it gave notice of the added, and unconsidered, ingredient that would embrace Ali for the rest of his life.
(17) Equally bold was Kalin's Swoon, which retold the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the notorious gay child-killers whose murder of a young boy had already inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion.
(18) It’s a glorious, swooning concoction, but forces you to confront one of singing’s great perils – the risk of ridicule.
(20) Before the internet, when the shroud of celebrity mystique was easier to maintain and nobody could tweet about Bill Cosby, fans felt less complicit in continuing to swoon over and patronize icons who were rumored to have done heinous things.