1
as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
after wandering in the woods for hours, we had only a faint idea of where we were
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as in weak
lacking bodily strength
I was starting to feel a little faint after going so long without food
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as in trance
a temporary state of unconsciousness
shocking news can cause a person to fall into a faint
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as in to collapse
to lose consciousness
the kind of person who faints at the sight of blood
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Recent Examples of faint
Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
There was no ring on her finger, just a faint tan line where a ring used to be.
—Patrick Albanese As Told To Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register, 22 Mar. 2026
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
Enchanting the Club Silencio audience with a powerfully emotional performance, Del Rio’s character faints (or worse) and crumples to the stage floor as the song hits its crescendo.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 June 2025
Allison Sesso, STAT, 20 Feb. 2026
The Twin Cities hospital has provided care to patients who come in under ICE custody, including those recently who have had head injuries, injuries from being assaulted and those who have fainted, the doctor said.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
The goal is to make the satellites too faint for the human eye and telescopes to see.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
There was no ring on her finger, just a faint tan line where a ring used to be.
—Patrick Albanese As Told To Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
The cost of membership and customization Joining Aerie is not for the faint of wallet.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
Enchanting the Club Silencio audience with a powerfully emotional performance, Del Rio’s character faints (or worse) and crumples to the stage floor as the song hits its crescendo.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 June 2025
Verb
Five hours earlier, construction worker Orlando Diaz arrived at the emergency department after fainting on the job due to the life-threatening condition of diabetic ketoacidosis.
—Allison Sesso, STAT, 20 Feb. 2026
The Twin Cities hospital has provided care to patients who come in under ICE custody, including those recently who have had head injuries, injuries from being assaulted and those who have fainted, the doctor said.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faint
Adjective
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Nor is this some vague or emotional objection.—
Kelsey Maurine Brickl,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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With such a sheer volume of work coming out, the anime market can get crowded, and its easy for these works to bleed together into a vague blob of gag comedies, action-adventure shows, and sickly-sweet romances.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The slide appears to have involved a thick slab of soft snow breaking loose at a weak layer in the snowpack, the report said.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Endowed not only with a privileged birthright but—unlike the actual princes over in England, who had weak chins and went bald young—the physical stature to match?—
Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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In that film, unassuming victims are put into a hypnotic trance by a psychic killer to then do his murdering for him, only for that violence to become even more contagious.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The innermost rim formed later, when a mountain at the crater’s center collapsed.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2026
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Eventually, Pearlene collapsed and died inside a makeshift bathroom in the family’s trailer, which had no running water or electricity.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In a break from decades of tradition, the band walked onto the stage in total darkness, visible to the crowd only in hazy silhouette.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2026
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Once you're set up, use your phone to scan the skies for faint hazy glows.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Congress has for the most part registered only feeble and ineffective opposition to such executive action.—
Sarah Burns,
The Conversation,
4 Mar. 2026
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Scratches above the dead body reach upward, marks that read as feeble attempts to cling to some semblance of life.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the band’s heyday, Anthony Kiedis, with his bare torso and long girlish copper-blond hair, looked like a ’70s teen idol who’d become a Warhol hustler – a street-flesh god like Joe Dallesandro, except that where Dallesandro was in a daze, Kiedis was a live wire.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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And there’s still almost an hour of film left to go, in which everyone, including the audience, is in a sort of hallucinatory, post traumatic daze — but even the relative comfort of that won’t last long.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Or swooning over Justin Bieber during his set?—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
29 Mar. 2026
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In January 2026, the actor made fans swoon by shouting out his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Faint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faint. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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