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faintish

adj

Etymology

From faint + -ish.

  1. derived from *dʰeyǵʰ-✻
  2. derived from fingo
  3. derived from faint
  4. inherited from faynt
  5. suffixed as faintish — “faint + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat faint.

    • We watched the faintish glow of far-off stars.
    • Still feeling faintish, I asked to be excused from dinner.
    • I slump back in the red trishaw, feeling faintish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faintish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA