faint — OAT · Shobdo

faint

adjective

1 her skirt had a faint mark or two:

indistinct, vague, unclear, indefinite, ill-defined, obscure, imperceptible, hardly noticeable, hardly detectable, unobtrusive;

pale, light, faded, bleached.

▷antonyms clear.

2 the baby gave a faint cry:

quiet, muted, muffled, stifled, subdued;

feeble, weak, thin, whispered, murmured, indistinct, scarcely audible, scarcely perceptible, hard to hear, hard to make out, vague;

low, soft, gentle.

▷antonyms loud.

3 the faint possibility of his returning:

slight, slender, slim, small, tiny, minimal, negligible, remote, distant, vague, unlikely, improbable, doubtful, dubious, far-fetched;

poor, outside;

informal minuscule;

rare exiguous.

▷antonyms great.

4 only faint praise was offered to the management team:

unenthusiastic, halfhearted, weak, feeble, low-key;

informal wishy-washy.

▷antonyms strong.

5 I suddenly felt hot and faint:

dizzy, giddy, lightheaded, muzzy, weak, weak at the knees, unsteady, shaky, wobbly, off-balance, reeling;

informal woozy, woolly, woolly-headed, dopey, trembly, all of a quiver;

rare vertiginous.

verb

he was so pale she thought he would faint:

pass out, lose consciousness, fall unconscious, black out, collapse;

informal flake out, keel over, conk out, zonk out, drop, go out, go out like a light;

literary swoon.

noun

she collapsed to the floor in a dead faint:

blackout, fainting fit, loss of consciousness, collapse;

coma;

literary swoon;

Medicine syncope.