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faintful

faintful adjective: displaying weakness, frailty, or faintness; fainting; dejected.

Adjective

faintful (comparative more faintful, superlative most faintful)

  1. Displaying weakness, frailty, or faintness; fainting; dejected
    • The shepherd sighs upon the barren hills / To see his bleating lambs with faintful looks / Behold the vallies robb'd of springing flowers, / That whilom wont to yield them yearly food.1825, John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, A select collection of old plays
    • When I look into the dainty eyes / I wash away the tears built inside, / Voices unheard, children's faintful cries / Teardrops falling down in disguise.2010, Concetta Tina Scarpitti, Mysterious Eyes

Examples of faintful in a sentence

  • The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.2012, Casimir Greenfield, Bloodstones:
  • Those I thought I grasped, I gasped at; most signified not a thing to me. . . .Fist to brow I told them over, faintful list, and struck at each”.2012, Derek C. Maus, Unvarnishing Reality:
  • Those who are sad are saddled / Those who are doubtful are downful / Those who are fearful are faintful / Those who are faintful are failure / Those who are defeated are deleted.2015, Basil Essien, The Seekers' Elixir:

Forms of faintful

comparativemore faintful
superlativemost faintful

Origin of faintful

From faint + -ful.

Questions about faintful

What does faintful mean?
Faintful means displaying weakness, frailty, or faintness; fainting; dejected.
How do you use faintful in a sentence?
The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.
What part of speech is faintful?
Faintful is an adjective.

Words near faintful in the dictionary

  1. faintens
  2. fainter
  3. fainters
  4. faintest
  5. fainteth
  6. faintful
  7. faintheart
  8. fainthearted
  9. faintheartedly
  10. faintheartedness
  11. faintheartednesses

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