The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SWOON , but the solution may also be PALE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Faint crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SWOON | 42 % | 5 |
| DIM | 18 % | 3 |
| PALE | 17 % | 4 |
| PASSOUT | 8 % | 7 |
| WAN | 6 % | 3 |
| WEAK | 2 % | 4 |
| KEELOVER | 2 % | 8 |
| REMOTE | 2 % | 6 |
| WISPY | 1 % | 5 |
| SYNCOPE | 1 % | 7 |
| BLACKOUT | 1 % | 8 |
| PLOTZ | 1 % | 5 |
| SUBTLE | 1 % | 6 |
Why may PALE be the right solution?
The word "pale" can be used to describe a faint or weak color, making it a suitable answer for the clue "faint."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Faint
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- feeble
- fainthearted
- swoon
- weak
- sick
- swooning
- timid
- cowardly
- coward
- pass out
- fearful
- light-headed
Crossword Answer definitions
SWOON noun- A faint.
- An infatuation.
- To faint, to lose consciousness.
- (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
- To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SWOON
- Black out
- Faint
- Pass out
- Need smelling salts?
- Reel with rapture
- Fainting fit
- Plotz
- Feel rapture
- Become rapturous
- Emulate a Ricky Martin fan, e.g.
More clues leading to the result DIM
- No rocket scientist
- __ bulb (not too bright)
- Not bright
- Shadowy
- Turn the lights down
- __ bulb (stupid person)
- Not so sharp (and the start of a split order of finger food)
- Indistinct
- Vague
- Barely turned on
More clues leading to the result PALE
- Color deficient
- Whitish in complexion
- Ashen
- Hardly rosy-cheeked
- Lighten up?
- Like Andy Warhol
- "____ Rider"
- 1985 Clint Eastward western, "____ Rider"
- Deficient in color
- Lacking color
More clues leading to the result PASSOUT
- Distribute
- Lose consciousness
- Distribute, as leaflets
- Faint
- Swoon
- Hand around.
- Faint: Slang.
- Distribute.
- 04:37:52, 1/1, with 54-Across
More clues leading to the result WAN
- Pale
- Off color?
- Washed out
- Whey-faced
- White as a ghost
- Without color
- Pasty-faced
- Pale-faced
- Pale (and, after burrowing, a 37-Down/43-Across from the Spice Girls)
- Bleached-looking
More clues leading to the result WEAK
- Pepless
- Ineffectual
- ___ sauce
- Lacking muscle
- Like undrinkable coffee
- Pale, as tea
- Hardly hardy
- Lacking potency
- Diluted
- Overly diluted
More clues leading to the result KEELOVER
More clues leading to the result REMOTE
- Out-of-the-way
- Couch potato's zapper
- Roku controller
- Universal ___
- Commercial zapper
- Hard to get to
- Essential device for a couch potato
- Distant
- Couch potato's device
- Show stopper?
More clues leading to the result WISPY
- Gossamer
- Indistinct
- Thin and delicate
- Barely discernible
- Thin, as smoke
- Like cirrus clouds
- Delicate
- Like a shred.
- Like some hairdos.
- Slender.
More clues leading to the result SYNCOPE
- "Ne'er" for "Never," e.g.
- Faint
- Elision of a sound from the middle of a word.
- Never into ne'er.
- Elision of a syllable.
- Word contraction.
- Dropping of sounds in grammar.
- Use of ne'er for never, e.g.
- "Ne'er," grammatically speaking
- Bos'n, grammatically
More clues leading to the result BLACKOUT
- Type of theatrical skit.
- Headline of November, 1965.
- Faint
- Kind of skit
- Power failure
- Northeast event of November 1965
More clues leading to the result PLOTZ
- Faint from excitement
- Collapse from excitement, in Yiddish slang
- Faint dead away, in slang
- Collapse from excitement, in slang
- Pass out from excitement, slangily
- Faint, slangily
- Faint from surprise
- Faint
- Faint, in slang
- Collapse from exhaustion, in slang