Word Meanings - FAINTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
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- FAINT
feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; - SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. - FAINTLY
In a faint, weak, or timidmanner. - FAINTLING
Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot. - FAINTISH
Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n. - SLIGHTLY
1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak. - FAINTNESS
1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness; - FAINTING
Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. - FAINTS
The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure. - FAINTHEARTED; FAINT-HEARTED
Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n. - FAINTY
Feeble; languid. Dryden.