Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Faint; feeble; languid; exhausted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Feeble; languid.

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  • adjective feeble; languid; inclined to faint

Etymologies

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faint +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Right up until I went all woozy and fainty and found myself at work, head between my knees, crying.

    Archive 2007-07-01 kittenpie 2007

  • Right up until I went all woozy and fainty and found myself at work, head between my knees, crying.

    Schrodinger's Mom kittenpie 2007

  • This week I've gone back to my usual diet of high carbs and chocolate, and I've been feeling really fainty.

    Pass The Smelling Salts 2008

  • I get sick if I don't eat every three hours and I feel fainty multiple times a day.

    Pregnancy. Sucks. 2008

  • Even in my state of fainty delirium I noticed that the first book had been renamed "and the Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "and the Philosopher's Stone" for the US readership.

    Half moon. 2005

  • Even in my state of fainty delirium I noticed that the first book had been renamed "and the Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "and the Philosopher's Stone" for the US readership.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Often, I will emerge feeling slightly blanched, a little bit red, and mostly a bit fainty.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • Often, I will emerge feeling slightly blanched, a little bit red, and mostly a bit fainty.

    That old weekend thing. 2004

  • And then even if I have eaten, I go to do something like clean my room and I feel like I do when I get low blood sugar, you know, all weak and shakey and fainty.

    18th May '03 2003

  • Thank you so much Laura-Ann for your email and your concern about Neil * hugs* I am slightly less worried now, well, I still think his company sucks, but I am slightly less worried about his dizzy fainty episodes, because actually I think he had a virus.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

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