swooning

1. 1.

   weak and likely to lose consciousness

   “suddenly felt faint from the pain”

   “was sick and faint from hunger”

   “felt light in the head”

   “a swooning fit”

   “light-headed with wine”

   “light-headed from lack of sleep”

   Synonymsfaintlightlight-headedlightheaded

   Similarill

Other forms of swooning

comparative

swooninger·

superlative

swooningest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swooning

What does swooning mean?

swooning means "weak and likely to lose consciousness".

How many syllables are in swooning?

swooning has 2 syllables: swoo-ning. The stress falls on "swoo". In IPA it is /ˈswunɪŋ/.

What is another word for swooning?

Close synonyms include faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swooning a common word?

swooning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.