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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2
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
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 9 Feb. 2026
The lowest-mass stars appear small, faint, red, and cool; the higher mass stars appear large, bright, blue, and hot.
—Big Think, 6 Feb. 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
Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
Steele, who already creates content for brands, happened to be filming the experience and captured her fainting on camera.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Kabocha is usually dark green or orange with faint stripes or bumps on the outside, with vibrant orange flesh on the inside.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 9 Feb. 2026
The lowest-mass stars appear small, faint, red, and cool; the higher mass stars appear large, bright, blue, and hot.
—Big Think, 6 Feb. 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
The highlight was by far the return of Lola Young, who performed for the first time since stepping away from the stage after fainting at a music festival.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
Steele, who already creates content for brands, happened to be filming the experience and captured her fainting on camera.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faint
Adjective
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Young Rod went off to France by himself, and on a visit to Chartres, standing in the nave of the cathedral, he was overcome by a vague but powerful sense that God was real.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some scholars suspect that his race was deliberately kept vague and note that, at the time, even those from other European countries like Italy or Spain would have been discriminated against by Brits.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The past four years of conflict have exposed more than one faulty assumption, not least the previously widespread belief even among Kyiv’s allies that Ukraine would be too weak, too disorganized, to resist a full-scale invasion.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Continue reading … PARTY RECKONING — Cortez Masto admits Democrats have been 'weak on immigration,' chides Biden.—
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FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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The floating objects, trance communications, phantom touches, miraculous healings, and poltergeist writings that followed in the five decades after Mona’s death were attributed to her and a pantheon of other notable spirits, including Black Elk.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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In other words, the age-old trance of acceptance has broken, and there are suddenly too many entrepreneurs capturing disaffected audiences by accusing legacy institutions of corruption and cowardice.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Abstract governance debates collapse when basic participation and revenue data are examined.—
Michael Fealey,
Sportico.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or that a mysterious process causes quantumness to spontaneously collapse.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In the public consciousness, these acts of violence were swept away because of the pandemic, and any prior events have faded into a hazy dream of American apathy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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Plans could blur as the impressionable Moon merges with nebulous Neptune in your 11th House of Friendship and Community, bringing welcome compassion but also frustratingly hazy expectations.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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When approached, such a goose might have made a feeble attempt to escape.—
Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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His inability to recognize the oxymoron makes Cole’s introspection on this topic feel less like a genuine reckoning and more like a feeble attempt at bleaching out the darkest stains of his career.—
Benny Sun,
Pitchfork,
10 Feb. 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
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Now the state, if not region, is in a daze.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
18 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Fans swooned over the wholesome answer.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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One of which, featuring Anna Cathcart’s Kitty Song Covey swooning over her love interest Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee), is embedded above.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Faint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faint. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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