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General dictionaries General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. faint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. faint: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. faint: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. faint, faint, faint: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. faint: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Faint, faint: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. faint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Faint: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. faint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. faint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. faint: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. faint: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. faint (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. faint: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. faint: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. faint: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  17. Faint (song), Faint, The Faint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. Faint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. faint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. faint: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. faint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. faint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. faint: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  24. Faint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  25. faint: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. faint: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. faint: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. faint: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. faint: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. faint: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faint: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faint: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. faint: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. faint: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. faint: Hyperdictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. faint: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
  2. faint: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FAINT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faint: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (faint)

noun:  a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
verb:  pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
adjective:  barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc ("A faint outline")
adjective:  lacking strength or vigor ("Damning with faint praise")
adjective:  weak and likely to lose consciousness ("Suddenly felt faint from the pain")
adjective:  lacking conviction or boldness or courage ("Faint heart ne'er won fair lady")
adjective:  indistinctly understood or felt or perceived ("A faint clue to the origin of the mystery")
adjective:  lacking clarity or distinctness ("Only a faint recollection")

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Phrases that include faint:   damn with faint praise, faint heartedly, faint blue galaxy, the faint hearted, a faint cold fear, more...

Words similar to faint:   dim, swoon, conk, fainted, fainter, faintest, fainthearted, fainting, faintish, faintishness, faintly, faintness, feeble, light, light-headed, shadowy, swooning, syncope, timid, vague, more...


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