fainter

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English

Etymology

faint +‎ -er

Pronunciation

Adjective

fainter

  1. comparative form of faint: more faint

Noun

fainter (plural fainters)

  1. One who faints.
    • 2005, Bonnie Trentham Myers, Best Yet Life and Lore of the Smokies, page 96:
      As an adult and the wife of the minister, I was always armed with vials of smelling salts, furnished by funeral directors, for fainters at church funerals.

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