faint

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /feɪnt/    美 /feɪnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of fainting, syncope.
    — She suffered another faint.
  2. The state of one who has fainted; a swoon. rare
动词 v.
  1. 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). intransitive
    — A fainting fit.
  2. To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. intransitive
    — If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
  3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. intransitive
    — November 12, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
    — I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.
  2. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
    — Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
  3. Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
    — There was a faint red light in the distance.
  4. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
    — faint efforts
  5. Slight; minimal.
    — a faint chance
  6. Sickly, so as to make a person feel faint. archaic
    — Happening to pass a fruiterer’s on their way; the door of which was open, though the shop was by this time shut; one of them remarked how faint the peaches smelled.

词形变化

fainter comparative faintest superlative feint alternative faints plural faints present,singular,third-person fainting participle,present fainted participle,past fainted past

词汇关系

近义词
queal
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.
词源 2
From Middle English fainten, feynten, from the adjective (see above).
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