faint

I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

There was a faint red light in the distance.

faint efforts

do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?

Happening to pass a fruiterer’s on their way; the door of which was open, though the shop was by this time shut; one of them remarked how faint the peaches smelled.