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Webster 1913 Edition


Fainty

Faint′y

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Adj.
Feeble; languid.
[R.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fainty

FA'INTY

,
Adj.
weak; feeble; languid.

Definition 2024


fainty

fainty

English

Adjective

fainty (comparative faintier, superlative faintiest)

  1. feeble; languid; inclined to faint
    • 1918, Eden Phillpotts, The Spinners:
      When I was young the sight of blood made me go fainty, but I laugh at it now.
    • 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
      'Tis enough to make you feel fainty.
    • 1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist:
      I'm sick an' fainty wi' this gert turn o' the wheel.