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faintly

/ˈfeɪntli/

faintly adverb: in a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

Adverb

faintly (comparative faintlier, superlative faintliest)

  1. In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
    • So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
    • ‘When—when are you going?’ said Jane faintly.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, page 198

faintly meaning in Telugu and Malayalam

faintly in Telugu

మూర్ఛగా

faintly in Malayalam

അല്പമാത്രമായി, മങ്ങി, ദുർബ്ബലമായി, മന്ദമായി

Examples of faintly in a sentence

  • Lipstein trades the faintly antique unease of literary reputation for the all-too-current ones of money and technology.
  • Some crater rings show faintly through the lunabase; others just break surface.
  • I laughed faintly, then added, “Just kidding,” and gave him jazz hands.

All 40 example sentences with faintly

Forms of faintly

comparativefaintlier
superlativefaintliest

Origin of faintly

From Middle English feintli, feintliche, equivalent to faint + -ly.

Questions about faintly

What does faintly mean?
Faintly means in a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
What is faintly in Telugu?
Faintly in Telugu is మూర్ఛగా. See Faintly meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is faintly?
Faintly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce faintly?
Faintly is pronounced /ˈfeɪntli/.

Words near faintly in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faintly (page history and authors); faintly (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); faintly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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