Crossword-Solution: FAINT 5 letters, 254 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Faint superl. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as,
faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Faint superl. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous;
cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
Faint superl. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the
senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a
faint color, or sound.
Faint superl. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner;
not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts;
faint resistance.
Faint n. The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a
swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
Faint v. i. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to
lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental
functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
Faint n. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become
depressed or despondent.
Faint n. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Faint v. t. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to
weaken.

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Word Anagrams
FAINT anagram FANTI, FITNA, INFAT

We have 254 clues for the answer “FAINT”

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Almost undetectable 1 answer
Barely audible or readable 1 answer
Barely detectable 1 answer
Barely registering 1 answer
Barely visible, as a star 1 answer
Become grounded? 1 answer
COLD (of hunting scent) 1 answer
DILATION of peripheral blood vessels and a sudden fall in blood pressure, result of 1 answer
Do more than swoon 1 answer
Ever-so-slight 1 answer
Exceedingly hard to see 1 answer
Hard to hear or see 1 answer
Hardly perceptible 1 answer
Just barely within earshot 1 answer
Light, or lightheaded 1 answer
Like a non-winning heart 1 answer
Like a sound that can barely be heard 1 answer
Like light from a far-off star 1 answer
Like the light from distant stars 1 answer
One is often said to be dead 1 answer
Printed with insufficient toner, maybe 1 answer
React to a skunk, in cartoons 1 answer
React to terrible news, perhaps 1 answer
Ready to plotz 1 answer
Very dim 1 answer
___ heart ne'er won fair lady 1 answer
lacking clarity, brightness, or volume 1 answer
loss of consciousness 1 answer
syncope collapse 1 answer
temporary loss of consciousness 1 answer
to make out Hard 1 answer
Almost inaudible 2 answers
Barely seen 2 answers
Difficult to make out 2 answers
GRADUALLY cease to be felt 2 answers
Hard to hear 2 answers
Hard to spot 2 answers
Need smelling salts 2 answers
Syncope. 3 answers
Barely there 3 answers
LOSE consciousness 3 answers
Plotz 3 answers
overstrained 3 answers
Hard to pick up? 4 answers
Hard to discern 5 answers
Barely perceptible 5 answers
bated 6 answers
fuzzily 7 answers
Hard to see 7 answers
keel over 7 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
RCNOAE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with FAINT (5)

Rise up from your bed of branches, Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me!” Faint with famine, Hiawatha Started from his bed of branches, From the twilight of his wigwam Forth into the flush of sunset Came, and wrestled with Mondamin; At his touch he felt new courage Throbbing in his brain and bosom, Felt new life and hope and vigor Run through every nerve and fibre.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Yet least they faint At the sad Sentence rigorously urg’d, For I behold them soft’nd and with tears Bewailing thir excess, all terror hide.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Meanwhile the faint cloudlets had flown back into the south-east corner of the sky, as if in terror of the large cloud, like a young brood gazed in upon by some monster.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Long-suffering father, Oedipus, the towers That fence the city still are faint and far; But where we stand is surely holy ground; A wilderness of laurel, olive, vine; Within a choir or songster nightingales Are warbling.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with FAINT (3)

Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.“That sort of thing,” Simmon said absently, his eyes still scanning the pages in front of him. I saw Fela turn her head to look at Simmon, almost as if she were surprised to see him sitting there. No, it w…
Patrick Rothfuss The Wise Man's Fear
Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Christopher Brennan
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 77 times in crossword archives (1974–2025).