faint
adjective
lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc..
Example Sentences
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Hope still has a heartbeat, but that grows fainter by the loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The predicted flare can then become fainter with each encounter, matching what astronomers have seen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
To spot S301 -- which is two billion times fainter than the star Betelgeuse in our sky -- the team of astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
That result supports the idea that at least some distant little red dots may look isolated simply because astronomers cannot detect the much fainter galaxies surrounding them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Evening was advancing toward the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
