Thesaurus / faint
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You can still see them going by, but barely—they’re very faint.
SATELLITE MEGA-CONSTELLATIONS RISK RUINING ASTRONOMY FOREVERNEEL PATELSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOn the sides, a lean premixed flame appears as a faint wisp.
FOUR TYPES OF FLAMES JOIN FORCES TO MAKE THIS EERIE ‘BLUE WHIRL’EMILY CONOVERAUGUST 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWSResearchers have started to make rough Faraday rotation measurements using LOFAR, but the telescope has trouble picking out the extremely faint signal.
THE HIDDEN MAGNETIC UNIVERSE BEGINS TO COME INTO VIEWNATALIE WOLCHOVERJULY 2, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEBy training computers to recognize such faint rumbles, the scientists were able not only to identify the probable culprit behind the quakes, but also to track how such mysterious swarms can spread through complex fault networks in space and time.
MACHINE LEARNING HELPED DEMYSTIFY A CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE SWARMCAROLYN GRAMLINGJUNE 18, 2020SCIENCE NEWSWhen that faint light hits the other side, it’s already been split apart into its colors.
EXPLAINER: RAINBOWS, FOGBOWS AND THEIR EERIE COUSINSMATTHEW CAPPUCCIMAY 1, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUIt was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODHe was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDThe cytoplasm of lymphocytes is generally robin's-egg blue; that of the large mononuclears may have a faint bluish tinge.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDWright's stain gives such cells a faint bluish tinge when the condition is mild, and a rather deep blue when severe.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 22, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO FAINT
- bashful
- buttoned up
- checked
- clammed up
- close
- closed up
- closemouthed
- curbed
- dumb
- dummied up
- faint
- hush
- hushed
- iced
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- inconversable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- laconic
- mousy
- mum
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- not talkative
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- shy
- silentious
- soundless
- still
- struck dumb
- taciturn
- tongue-tied
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- unheard
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.