Associations to the word «Faintly»

Wiktionary

FAINTLY, adverb. In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

Dictionary definition

FAINTLY, adverb. To a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren't even faintly true".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne