fainter
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
fainter (plural fainters)
- One who faints.
- 2005, Bonnie Trentham Myers, Best Yet Life and Lore of the Smokies, page 96:
- As an adult and the wife of the minister, I was always armed with vials of smelling salts, furnished by funeral directors, for fainters at church funerals.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
fainter
- comparative form of faint: more faint