swooning

6.8

Feeling very weak and about to faint

adjective
/ˈswuːnɪŋ/

: mareado

After running in the heat, she was swooning and needed to sit down.

Examples

The crowd was swooning from exhaustion after hours in the sun.
He stood swooning at the sight of blood, gripping the back of a chair for support.
I felt swooning after the spinning ride!
She is swooning.
After the intense workout, she felt swooning and had to rest on a nearby bench.
He nearly collapsed, swooning from the heat after running the marathon.
The long hours without food left him swooning as he waited for lunch.

Synonyms

dizzy

vsswooning

168 1.0

Feeling like the room or world is turning and you may fall

is more about overall weakness and likely loss of consciousness than spinning

faint

vsswooning

38 2.7

Feeling weak and about to lose consciousness

is broader and highlights a spinning or unsteady feeling alongside collapse risk

woozy

vsswooning

29 5.7

Feeling dizzy and unsteady, as if you might faint

emphasizes the chance of losing consciousness rather than mere unsteadiness

light-headed

vsswooning

15 4.2

Feeling dizzy and weak like you might faint

focuses more on likely collapse rather than mild balance problems

lightheaded

vsswooning

14 4.4

Feeling dizzy and as if you might faint

is more about clear risk of losing consciousness than slight unawareness

swoony

vsswooning

Informal

1 8.0

Feeling faint and dreamy because of strong feelings of love

is about physical weakness and risk of losing consciousness not romantic feeling

Antonyms

alert

137 3.5

A state of being ready and watchful for possible danger

How Faint

unconscious

243 4.2

swooning

6.8

dizzy

168 1.0

light-headed

15 4.2

unsteady

16 3.3

steady

186 1.3

Surface Forms

swooning positive

Morphology

swooning = swoon (transparent) = swoon + ing

The adjective 'swooning' is transparently derived from the verb 'swoon' with the addition of the suffix '-ing'.

Etymology

Swooning comes from an old English verb swonian that meant 'to die away' or 'fade'. So when someone is swooning, their strength seems to 'fade' and they feel faint or dizzy.