FAINT Copy link • FAINT 1. Inclined to faint; by circumlocution with verbs under “To FAINT.” Deprived of strength, etc., languidus: lassus: fessus: defessus (wearied; opposed to integer; SYN. in FATIGUED): to become faint, languescere: elanguescere: a viribus defici: to be faint, languere. IMPROPR., Not lively or fresh, languidus: languens (without strength or life; of color, look, voice, etc.). A faint color, color languidus, lentus (not lively); color dilutus (washy). To grow or become faint, languescere, evanescere: to be faint, languere. Feeble, Vid: Timid, Vid: To damn with faint praise, maligne laudare aliquid (Hor., Ep., 2, 1, 209); *aliquem frigide laudare or *aliquem tarn frigide laudat aliquis, ut paene castigare videatur. 2. v. PROPR., animus me relinquit or (post- Augustan) linquit: animus me deficit (especially from excessive heat, per aestum): animo linquor (post- Augustan): animo linquor submittorque genu (to fall down in a fainting-fit). I am lying in a fainting-fit, animus me reliquit or liquit; anima defecit (Vid: above); also torpeo (Vid: Curt., 3, 6, 14). Fainting, torpens. IMPROPR., To be dispirited; Vid: DISPIRITED.