FAINTLY Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

faintly

adverb

Definition of faintly

as in quietly

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Recent Examples of faintly The soil should be moist, faintly acid smelling, from its infusion of decayed compost. — Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026 Suddenly, her parents’ cheerful transparency—their coarse jokes, their eagerness to name things that should not be named—appeared to Nidhi in a faintly embarrassing light. — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026 Smell and Taste Fresh watermelon should smell clean and faintly sweet. — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026 All your zillennial and millennial friends, now adults with car insurance and vigorous SPF routines, have been watching cozy, faintly dissociative teen dramas in order to forget their troubles. — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026 The ceremonies are held at Nihi’s Nihioka sanctuary, an hour’s ride from the hotel through wide open rice fields and thick jungle, where emerald hills cascade down towards the sea and the sound of waves carries faintly across the valley. — Charley Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026 Instead of using a mirror to gather starlight, MOTHRA has many telephoto lenses, like those on a camera, which can capture faintly glowing wisps of gas and other feeble emanations across a wider field of view. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026 Each discharge, heard faintly at the surface, is like a miniature, subterranean lightning strike. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026 Her baby lies still in her arms, his breathing faintly wheezing. — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026

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Amid the resurgence of Japanese cinema on the international festival circuit over the past few years, one resolutely indie banner, Bitters End, has been quietly growing its profile across production, distribution and international sales.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Addison is quietly piecing together a phenomenal training camp, displaying an impressive rapport with Murray after the two spent significant time together this offseason in Dallas.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of quietly

Adverb

Small branches can be clipped quickly and almost noiselessly and fashioned into an effective blind in only a few minutes.

— Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
On a brilliant midsummer morning, my wife and I stepped into a black Zodiac raft and drifted noiselessly among icebergs five stories high, their emerald and aquamarine walls gleaming above sapphire waters.

— Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025

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