faintly

adv
/ˈfeɪntli/

Etymology

From Middle English feintli, feintliche, equivalent to faint + -ly.

  1. inherited from feintli

Definitions

  1. In a faint manner

    In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

    • Faintlier, faintlier came the footfalls to his ear, until of all the faint sounds that came, by the abandoned air, to his ear, not one was a footfall, as far as he could judge.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faintly. 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