Synonym: black out, dim, hazy, indistinct, keel over, pale, swoon, vague, weak, weaken. Antonym: intense, loud, strong. Similar words: maintain, ain't, painter, in the main, complaint, paintwork, plaintiff, constraint. Meaning: [feɪnt] n. a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain. v. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain. adj. 1. deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc 2. lacking clarity or distinctness 3. lacking strength or vigor 4. weak and likely to lose consciousness 5. indistinctly understood or felt or perceived 6. lacking conviction or boldness or courage.
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181. Mr Chand looked at Langford across the desk with an expression resembling faint surprise.
182. If it can startle the predator in some way, there is a faint chance that the enemy may panic and flee.
183. A faint scent of tobacco and fish lingered, even though one of the windows had been opened.
184. He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense, the faint acrid smoke of the candle.
185. The faint glow of a match shone through the door from the house.
186. Before she got there, however, there was a faint cracking from the surrounding darkness.
187. There are faint traces of tyre on the road, but no serious skidding.
188. A laser transmitted faint light signals to an electronic detector.
189. With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
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190. I got up to close it, and a faint, almost imaginary hum of traffic drifted up out of the valley.
191. You can hear the faint roar of the breakers on its empty sandy beaches.
192. I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters.
193. The faint sound of his cello, as I lay tucked up in bed, is woven into my childhood memories.
194. In the distance I could see a faint light, and I decided to try to reach it.
195. He could see a faint pink glow in the East.
196. We follow a number of faint tracks that disappear on the flat and run into barriers of scrub brush and trees.
197. That uncertainty urges us to look beyond the present, with a faint hope to control our future.
198. One Saturday, in September 1995, my pulse races, I get dizzy, and feel faint.
199. As the steam drifted toward him, it seemed to bring with it a faint smell of meat.
200. Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb.
201. But through the murk there was a faint glimmer of light.
202. He knew he was quite safe[sentencedict.com], yet he felt increasingly tense as he ascended the steep path in the faint light.
203. He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
204. Here the sound of running water can be heard like faint background music.
205. Faint news of the whistle from the nearby paper mill broadcast from the hillsides.
206. Only a few faint lines crinkled her eyes, and she had lost weight.
207. Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above.
208. A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman.
209. For a moment she looked quite faint, but with a great effort she stood her ground.
210. Beside us the lace curtains bellied in with a faint breeze, then hung inert.