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faint-hearted

faint-hearted is the alternative spelling of fainthearted.

Meaning of fainthearted

Adjective

fainthearted (comparative more fainthearted, superlative most fainthearted)

  1. Faint of heart; irresolute; fearful.
    • Upon this, our guide, who, by the way, was but a fainthearted fellow, bid us keep in a ready posture, for he believed there were more wolves a-coming. We kept our arms ready, and our eyes about us...1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
    Synonyms:
    afraid, cowardly, meek, timid

Forms of faint-hearted

comparativemore faint-hearted
superlativemost faint-hearted

Questions about faint-hearted

What is faint-hearted the alternative spelling of?
Faint-hearted is the alternative spelling of fainthearted.

Words near faint-hearted in the dictionary

  1. faint heart ne'er won fair lady
  2. faint heart never won fair lady
  3. faint heart never won fair maiden
  4. faint of heart
  5. faint-heart
  6. faint-hearted
  7. faint-heartedly
  8. faint-heartedness
  9. faint-hearts
  10. fainted
  11. faintee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faint-hearted (page history and authors); fainthearted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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