faintly

Definition

In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

Etymology

From Middle English feintli, feintliche, equivalent to faint + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
• "Faintlier, faintlier came the footfalls to his ear, until of all the faint sounds that came, by the abandoned air, to his ear, not one was a footfall, as far as he could judge."