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Nouns (4)

faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium

n. a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

Verbs (4)

faint, conk, swoon, pass out

v. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (10)

faint

adj. indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

faint, subtle

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded

adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"

Fuzzynyms (32)

fall in

v. to take one's place in a military formation or line; "Troops fall in!"

fall

v. be cast down; "his eyes fell"

crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse

v. fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

delicate

adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

listless

adj. lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"

inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid

adj. very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

inaudible, unhearable

adj. impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear; "an inaudible conversation"

dull, muffled, muted, softened

adj. being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

Synonyms (117)

dull, muffled, muted, softened

adj. being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

soft-spoken

adj. having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh; "she was always soft-spoken"

hushed, muted, subdued, quiet

adj. in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"

low, low-toned

adj. very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"

murmuring, susurrant, whispering

adj. making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"

murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous

adj. characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren

soft-footed

adj. sound of quiet gentle steps

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

jerry-built, shoddy

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

little, small

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

thin

adj. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

dainty

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind";

ethereal, gossamer

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

easy, gentle, soft

adj. having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"

half-hardy

adj. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

light-handed

adj. having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker

overdelicate

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

tender

adj. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

afflicted, stricken

adj. grievously affected especially by disease

aguish

adj. affected by ague

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick

adj. experiencing motion sickness

bad, tough

adj. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"

bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed

adj. confined to bed (by illness)

bilious, liverish, livery

adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

bronchitic

adj. suffering from or prone to bronchitis

consumptive

adj. afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"

convalescent, recovering

adj. returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"

delirious, hallucinating

adj. experiencing delirium

diabetic

adj. suffering from diabetes

dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous

adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

dyspeptic

adj. suffering from dyspepsia

feverish, feverous

adj. having or affected by a fever

gouty

adj. suffering from gout

laid low(p), stricken

adj. put out of action (by illness)

laid up(p)

adj. ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"

unwell, menstruating

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

scrofulous

adj. afflicted with scrofula

sneezy

adj. inclined to sneeze

spastic

adj. suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"

tubercular, tuberculous

adj. constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis"

unhealed

adj. not healed; "an unhealed wound"

upset

adj. mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"

Antonyms (4)

come to, revive, resuscitate

v. return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

strong

adj. having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"

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