faintyadj.
/ˈfeɪnti/ Obsolete exc. poetic and dialect.
1. Faint, sickly, languid. In later use chiefly: Inclined to swoon.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak
unmightyeOE
unferea1060
unwieldc1220
fade1303
lewc1325
weak1340
fainta1375
sicklyc1374
unwieldyc1386
impotent1390
delicatea1398
lowa1398
unmighta1450
unlustyc1450
low-brought1459
wearyc1480
failed1490
worn1508
caduke?1518
fainty1530
weak1535
debile1536
fluey1545
tewly?1547
faltering1549
puling1549
imbecilec1550
debilitate1552
flash1562
unable1577
unhealthful1595
unabled1597
whindling1601
infirm1608
debilitated1611
bedrid1629
washya1631
silly1636
fluea1645
tender1645
invaletudinary1661
languishant1674
valetudinaire?c1682
puly1688
thriftless1693
unheartya1699
wishy-washy1703
enervate1706
valetudinarian1713
lask1727
wersh1755
palliea1774
wankle1781
asthenic1789
atonic1792
squeal1794
adynamic1803
worn-down1814
totterish1817
asthenical1819
prostrate1820
used up1823
wankya1825
creaky1834
groggy1834
puny1838
imbeciled1840
rickety-rackety1840
muscleless1841
weedy1849
tottery1861
crocky1880
wimbly-wambly1881
ramshackle1889
twitterly1896
twittery1907
wonky1919
strung out1959
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon > about to faint
faintc1320
fainty1530
faintful1589
swooning-ripe1652
faintish1834
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bvij Faith waxed feble and fayntye.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health lxix. 70 If a man vse much Saffron it will make him verie faintie.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xvi. 109 I presently found my stomach fainty.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 84 The fainty Root can take no steady hold. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 397 The fainty Knights..knew not where To run for Shelter.
1796 S. T. Coleridge in M. E. Sandford T. Poole & his Friends (1888) I. 177 It..left me pale and fainty.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 295 All hands..their fainty frames have flung Upon the earth.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) at Aitch Fainty aitches are fainting fits.
2. Causing or productive of faintness; sickly.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased
untrumc825
sickc888
unwholec888
slackc897
unstronga900
sicklea1000
sam-halea1023
worseOE
attaint1303
languishinga1325
heallessc1374
sicklyc1374
sicklewa1387
bada1393
mishalea1400
languoring?c1425
distempered1440
unwell?c1450
detent?a1475
poora1475
languorousc1475
maladif1481
illa1500
maladiousc1500
wanthriven1508
attainted1509
unsound1513
acrazed1521
cracked1527
unsoundya1529
visited1537
infirmed1552
crazed1555
healthless1568
ill-liking1572
afflicted1574
crazy1576
unhealthful1580
sickish1581
valetudinary1581
not well1587
fainty1590
ill-disposed1596
unhealthsome1598
tainted1600
ill-affected1604
peaking1611
unhealthy1611
infirmited1616
disaffected1626
physical1633
illish1637
pimping1640
invalid1642
misaffected1645
valetudinarious1648
unhale1653
badly1654
unwholesome1655
valetudinous1655
morbulent1656
off the hooksa1658
mawkish1668
morbid1668
unthriven1680
unsane1690
ailing1716
not wellish1737
underlya1742
poorly1750
indifferent1753
comical1755
maladized1790
sober1808
sickened1815
broken-down1816
peaky1821
poorlyish1827
souffrante1827
run-down1831
sicklied1835
addle1844
shaky1844
mean1845
dauncy1846
stricken1846
peakyish1853
po'ly1860
pindling1861
rough1882
rocky1883
suffering1885
wabbit1895
icky-boo1920
like death warmed up1924
icky1938
ropy1945
crappy1956
hanging1971
sick as a parrot1982
shite1987
1590 T. Watson Eglogue vpon Death Walsingham 107 Who shall recure their faintie maladies?
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 602 A faintie sultrie blowing.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 86 They are apt to sweat much, whence proceeds a fainty Indisposition.
Derivatives
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]
unhealc700
untrumnessc897
adleeOE
sicknessc967
cothec1000
unhealthc1000
woe?a1200
ail?c1225
lying?c1225
maladyc1275
unsoundc1275
feebless1297
languora1375
languishc1384
disease1393
aegritudea1400
lamea1400
maleasea1400
soughta1400
wilc1400
malefaction?a1425
firmityc1426
unwholesomenessc1449
ill1450
languenta1500
distemperancea1535
the valley of the shadow of death1535
affect?1537
affection?1541
distemperature1541
inability1547
sickliness1565
languishment1576
cause1578
unhealthfulness1589
crazedness1593
languorment1593
evilness1599
strickenness1599
craziness1602
distemper1604
unsoundness1605
invaletude1623
unhealthiness1634
achaque1647
unwellness1653
disailment1657
insalubrity1668
faintiness1683
queerness1687
invalidity1690
illness1692
ill health1698
ailment1708
illing1719
invalescence1724
peakingness1727
sickishness1727
valetudinariness1742
ailingness1776
brash1786
invalidism1794
poorliness1814
diseasement1826
invalidship1830
valetudinarianism1839
ailing1862
invalidhood1863
megrims1870
pourriture1890
immersement1903
bug1918
condition1920
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > feeling about to
faintc1320
abatec1500
faintness1526
faintingnessa1661
faintiness1683
faintishness1733
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 31 Green Corn or Grass..makes such Cattle..apt to faintyness and Diseases.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 593 Causing a general Faintiness to attend the whole Body.
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