faint
微弱的,淡淡的,晕眩的,晕倒的
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Definitions
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faint·er, faint·est.
- : lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- : feeble or slight: faint resistance; faint praise; a faint resemblance.
- : feeling weak, dizzy, or exhausted; about to lose consciousness: faint with hunger.
- : lacking courage; cowardly; timorous: Faint heart never won fair maid.
- : Law. unfounded: a faint action.
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- : to lose consciousness temporarily.
- : to lose brightness.
- : Archaic. to grow weak; lose spirit or courage.
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Examples
You can still see them going by, but barely—they’re very faint.
On the sides, a lean premixed flame appears as a faint wisp.
Researchers have started to make rough Faraday rotation measurements using LOFAR, but the telescope has trouble picking out the extremely faint signal.
By training computers to recognize such faint rumbles, the scientists were able not only to identify the probable culprit behind the quakes, but also to track how such mysterious swarms can spread through complex fault networks in space and time.
When that faint light hits the other side, it’s already been split apart into its colors.
Her voice was raspy and after answering questions she paused, as if about to faint.
I saw a faint, sweet glimmer of the ferocious protector he once was.
But this time I can plainly hear, through the rush of words, the faint rattle of hysteria that bespeaks a screw loose somewhere.
After about an hour, he hears a faint tapping sound from inside the freezer and opens the door.
A fine book all around, but not a book for the faint of heart.
The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.