Faint

//feɪnt//

Synonyms for "faint" (391 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (79)

feeble indistinct pass out shadowy swoon syncope abulic achromatic achromic afraid ailing anemic ashen ashy asthenic bad balmy barely audible below par black out

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Verb(4 words)

pass out swoon black out conk

Adjective(4 words)

bland colourless dim dingy

Noun(2 words)

blankout deliquium

Adjective(1 words)

dim

Strong matches (117)

dizzy down dreamy droop drooping droopy drop dull dusty effete enervated enfeebled etiolated exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous fade faded fagged fail

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Adjective(7 words)

dizzy dreary dull gayless halcyon lackluster leaden

Adjective(3 words)

faint-hearted fainthearted feeble

Verb(1 words)

keel over

Related words (195)

Adjective(9 words)

light light-headed lightheaded shadowy swooning timid vague weak wispy

light headed light-headed limber limp lipothymia lipothymy listless livid low low profile low-profile lurid lusterless lustless marrowless mat mealy merely glimpsed mild misty

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mortally ill muddy muffled murmured muted muzzy nebulous nerveless neutral nirvana nirvana principle not quite right nothingness oblivion obliviousness obscure off color off-color out of focus out of sorts outside pale pale as death pale-faced pallid pant pass pasty peg out perceptible peter out pianissimo piano pine pithless play out pliable poop out pooped powerless puff puff and blow queal queer ready to drop rocky rubbery run down run out run ragged run-down sagging sallow sapless scarcely heard seedy semiconsciousness semivisible senselessness sick sick unto death sickish sickly sinewless sink slack sleep slight small smooth soft soft-sounding soft-voiced spineless stifled strengthless stupor subaudible subdued subtle succumb sweb swim taken ill tallow-faced tepid thin tire tired tired-winged toilworn toneless uncertain unclear uncolored unconsciousness undefined under the weather undetermined unhardened unnerved unplain unrecognizable unrefreshed unrestored unsteady unstrung unwell vague vertiginous vertigo wan washed out washed-out wavering waxen way-weary wayworn weak weak kneed weak minded weak-kneed weak-minded weak-voiced weak-willed weaken weakened weakly wear away wear thin wearied weariful weary weary-footed weary-laden weary-winged weary-worn weedy wheeze whey-faced whispered white wilt wilting woozy worn worn-down yield

Adjective(14 words)

matte muddy quiet quiet as a mouse remote sad sober still toothless uncolorful unholiday wan wasted weedy

Verb(2 words)

queal sweb

Noun(2 words)

swoon syncope

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

4 entries

black out loss of consciousness pass out zonk out

Synonyms

8 entries

faint hearted feeble light headed pass out queal shadowy sweb swoon

dbpedia genre

2 entries

indie rock new wave music

derived

27 entries

afaint damn with faint praise faint heart never won fair lady faint of heart faint-heart faint-hearted fainten faintful faintheart fainthearted fainthood fainting goat faintingly faintingness faintish faintless

Showing 16 of 27 words.

distinct from

1 entries

loud

is a

2 entries

band loss of consciousness

manner of

1 entries

zonk out

related to

30 entries

brain collapse conscious consciousness cowardly dejected disorder down fainting fall fall down falling falling over languid lose lose conscious

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similar

11 entries

cowardly fainting spell fearful ill indistinct perceptible sick syncope weak

Translations

288 translations across 70 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

zalit verb (to lose consciousness)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

λιποθυμία noun (the act of fainting)
λιποθυμάω verb (to lose consciousness)
λιποψυχέω verb (to lose consciousness)
μικροψυχέω verb (to lose consciousness)

Arabic

4 entries

إِغْمَاء noun (the act of fainting)
أُغْمى verb (to lose consciousness)
أُغْمى verb (to lose consciousness)
أُغْمِي verb (to lose consciousness)

Armenian

2 entries

տկար adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
նվաղել verb (to lose consciousness)

Basque

1 entries

geldo adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Bulgarian

4 entries

немощен adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
неотчетлив adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
неясен adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
плах adj (wanting in courage)

Catalan

4 entries

dèbil adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
feble adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
feble adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
tènue adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᎸᏖᎭ verb (to lose consciousness)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

微弱 adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
昏厥 noun (the act of fainting)
昏倒 verb (to lose consciousness)
昏過去 /昏过去 verb (to lose consciousness)

Czech

4 entries

chabý adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
malátný adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
nepřesvědčivý adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
slabý adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Danish

3 entries

besvimelse noun (the act of fainting)
besvime verb (to lose consciousness)
falde i svime verb (to lose consciousness)

Dutch

4 entries

zwak adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
zwak adj (wanting in courage)
zwak adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
zwak adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)

Egyptian

1 entries

Q3-G40-A-O34:D12 verb (to lose consciousness)

Esperanto

2 entries

malforta adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
sveni verb (to lose consciousness)

Estonian

1 entries

minestama verb (to lose consciousness)

Faroese

1 entries

svíma verb (to lose consciousness)

Finnish

4 entries

heikko adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
heikko adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
heiveröinen adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
hämärä adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

French

4 entries

craintif adj (wanting in courage)
faible adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
faible adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
faible adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)

Galician

4 entries

feble adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
desmaio noun (the act of fainting)
pasamento noun (the act of fainting)
desmaiar verb (to lose consciousness)

Georgian

1 entries

გულის წასვლა noun (the act of fainting)

German

4 entries

kraftlos adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
schwach adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
unentschlossen adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
unsicher adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Greek

4 entries

αχνός adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
αχνός adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
λιποθυμία noun (the act of fainting)
λιποθυμώ verb (to lose consciousness)

Hebrew

2 entries

כהה adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
הִתְעַלֵּף verb (to lose consciousness)

Hindi

4 entries

फीका adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
फीका adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
मंद adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
शक्तिहीन adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Hungarian

1 entries

elájul verb (to lose consciousness)

Icelandic

3 entries

daufur adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
líða yfir verb (to lose consciousness)
missa meðvitund verb (to lose consciousness)

Ido

1 entries

esvanar verb (to lose consciousness)

Indonesian

1 entries

pingsan verb (to lose consciousness)

Irish

2 entries

laige noun (the act of fainting)
tit i laige verb (to lose consciousness)

Italian

4 entries

debole adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
debole adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
debole adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
incerto adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Japanese

4 entries

かすか adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
弱々しい adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
弱々しい adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
気が弱い adj (wanting in courage)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

desmaiá verb (to lose consciousness)
dismaia verb (to lose consciousness)

Kapampangan

1 entries

bunsul adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Khmer

1 entries

សន្លប់ verb (to lose consciousness)

Korean

4 entries

가냘프다 adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
가냘프다 adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
심약하다 adj (wanting in courage)
흐릿하다 adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

талуу adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
талып калуу adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
эс оош adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
эси ооп жыгылып калуу adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Lithuanian

4 entries

alpulys noun (the state of one who has fainted)
nualpimas noun (the act of fainting)
alpti verb (to lose consciousness)
apalpti verb (to lose consciousness)

Malay

1 entries

pengsan verb (to lose consciousness)

Manchu

1 entries

ᠯᡳᠶᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠮᠪᡳ verb (to lose consciousness)

Maore Comorian

1 entries

uɓama verb (to lose consciousness)

Middle English

1 entries

swelten verb (to lose consciousness)

Māori

4 entries

hauaitu adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
hauaitu adj (wanting in courage)
hauhauaitu adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
hauhauaitu adj (wanting in courage)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

uvuɓama verb (to lose consciousness)

Norman

1 entries

s'êvanni verb (to lose consciousness)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

besvime verb (to lose consciousness)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

dåna verb (to lose consciousness)
svima av verb (to lose consciousness)

Occitan

4 entries

debil adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
feble adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
feble adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
flac adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

مخمور adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
بایلمق verb (to lose consciousness)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

beschwiemen verb (to lose consciousness)

Polish

3 entries

mdleć verb (to lose consciousness)
omdleć verb (to lose consciousness)
zemdleć verb (to lose consciousness)

Portuguese

4 entries

débil adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
lânguido adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
pávido adj (wanting in courage)
tênue adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)

Romanian

4 entries

estompat adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
slab adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
slab adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
slăbit adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Russian

4 entries

вя́лый adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
сла́бый adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
сла́бый adj (wanting in courage)
слабоне́рвный adj (wanting in courage)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

neul noun (the state of one who has fainted)
rach an neul verb (to lose consciousness)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

onesvestiti verb (to lose consciousness)
onesvijestiti verb (to lose consciousness)

Slovak

1 entries

mdlý adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Slovene

3 entries

omedleti verb (to lose consciousness)
omedlevati verb (to lose consciousness)
onesvestiti se verb (to lose consciousness)

Spanish

4 entries

apagado adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
apocado adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)
débil adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
lánguido adj (performed in a weak or feeble manner)

Swedish

4 entries

feg adj (wanting in courage)
klen adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)
klen adj (wanting in courage)
kraftlös adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Tagalog

1 entries

himatayin verb (to lose consciousness)

Tamil

1 entries

மயங்கு verb (to lose consciousness)

Tashelhit

1 entries

ⵙⵅⴼ verb (to lose consciousness)

Thai

2 entries

สลบ verb (to lose consciousness)
เป็นลม verb (to lose consciousness)

Turkish

4 entries

baygınlık noun (the state of one who has fainted)
bayılma noun (the act of fainting)
saka noun (the act of fainting)
bayılmak verb (to lose consciousness)

Ukrainian

4 entries

тьмя́ний adj (lacking distinctness, hardly perceptible)
знеприто́мніти verb (to lose consciousness)
зомлі́ти verb (to lose consciousness)
зомліва́ти verb (to lose consciousness)

Unami

1 entries

nùktihëleamàlsi adj (lacking strength; inclined to lose consciousness)

Vietnamese

2 entries

ngất verb (to lose consciousness)
xỉu verb (to lose consciousness)

Walloon

2 entries

tchaire fwebe verb (to lose consciousness)
toumer flåwe verb (to lose consciousness)

Welsh

3 entries

llewyg noun (the act of fainting)
llewygfa noun (the act of fainting)
llewygu verb (to lose consciousness)

Yiddish

1 entries

חלשן verb (to lose consciousness)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The sound of shouting grew faint.

Source: tatoeba (19238)

I suddenly stood up and felt faint and light-headed.

Source: tatoeba (19616)

I think I'm going to faint.

Source: tatoeba (20307)

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Source: tatoeba (20383)

Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.

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