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faintling

faintling adjective: timorous; feeble-minded.

Adjective

faintling (comparative more faintling, superlative most faintling)

  1. Timorous; feeble-minded.

Noun

faintling (plural faintlings)

  1. One who is faint, feeble, or weak.
    • And for a weak and peevish youth, a faintling, A boy of a girl's temper; one who shrinks Trembling and crouching at a look, a word, A lifted ringer, like a beaten hound.1823, THE LITERARY CHRONICLE, page 178
    • Strong, strong, ever on, Strong in our hope increasing; Heed not the faintling's fall, Nor eyes that on ye look coldly.1901, Socialist songs with music

Forms of faintling

Adjective
comparativemore faintling
superlativemost faintling
Noun
pluralfaintlings

Origin of faintling

From faint + -ling.

Questions about faintling

What does faintling mean?
Faintling means timorous; feeble-minded.
What part of speech is faintling?
Faintling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near faintling in the dictionary

  1. faintish
  2. faintishness
  3. faintless
  4. faintlier
  5. faintliest
  6. faintling
  7. faintlings
  8. faintly
  9. faintness
  10. faintnesses
  11. faints

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