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.