faint
adj.adj. describes something that is very light, quiet, or difficult to see or hear.
adj. lacking brightness, vividness, or clarity; barely perceptible to the senses.
I can hear a faint noise coming from the basement.
There was a faint smell of perfume in the hallway, suggesting someone had recently walked through.
The hikers could just make out the faint outline of the distant peaks through the thick morning mist, though the trail itself remained hidden.
From Middle English faynt, feynt (“weak; feeble”), from Old French faint, feint (“feigned; negligent; sluggish”), past participle of feindre, faindre (“to feign; sham; work negligently”), from Latin fingere (“to touch, handle, form, shape, frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, contrive, devise, feign”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Cognate with feign and fiction and more distantly dough.
From Middle English fainten, feynten, from the adjective (see above).
Typically placed before the noun it modifies or after a linking verb like 'be' or 'become'.
The heat fainted him.The heat made him faint.Faint is intransitive; you cannot 'faint' someone else. Use 'make' or 'cause' to describe the trigger.