Usually means: Lose consciousness briefly; weak, dizzy.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. faint: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. faint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. faint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. faint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. faint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Faint, faint: Wordnik
  7. faint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. faint: Wiktionary
  9. faint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. faint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. faint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. faint: Dictionary.com
  13. faint (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. faint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Faint (disambiguation), Faint (song), Faint, The Faint, The faint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Faint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. faint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. faint: Rhymezone
  19. faint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. faint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Faint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. faint: Free Dictionary
  23. faint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. faint: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. faint: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. faint: Medical dictionary
  4. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. faint: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FAINT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. faint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. faint: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fainted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
adjective:  Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected
adjective:  Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp
adjective:  Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy
adjective:  Slight; minimal.
adjective:  (archaic) Sickly, so as to make a person feel faint.
noun:  The act of fainting, syncope.
noun:  (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
verb:  (intransitive) To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
verb:  (intransitive) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

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