fainter

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

faint (verb) +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

fainter (plural fainters)

  1. 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]

faint (adjective) +‎ -er

Adjective[edit]

fainter

  1. comparative form of faint: more faint

Anagrams[edit]

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