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faint-hearted

English

Alternative forms

  • faint-heart (archaic)

Etymology

From faint +? hearted.

Adjective

faint-hearted (comparative more faint-hearted, superlative most faint-hearted)

  1. Lacking courage; timid

Derived terms

  • faint-heartedly
  • faint-heartedness

Related terms

  • faint of heart

Translations

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retiring

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???ta?(?)???/
  • Rhymes: -a?????

Adjective

retiring

  1. introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
    • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter LX:
      Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.

Translations

Verb

retiring

  1. present participle of retire
    Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.

Noun

retiring (plural retirings)

  1. retirement
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
      One day of those his retirings [sic], giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.

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