Faint and Heavy

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Faint adjective - Not seen or understood clearly.

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Heavy is an antonym for faint in topics: weak, having little effect on senses.

Nearby Words: faintly, fainted, fainting

Heavy adjective - Having great weight.

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Faint is an antonym for heavy.

Nearby Words: heave, heavyweight, heaviness, heaved, heavily

And then you have to scan the beam across the target, and use large and heavy detectors to pick up the extremely faint backscattered X-rays.

Source: X-Ray Vision
Some live performances of Blinding by Florence and the Machine featured a blood-curdling shriek before what would be the last iteration of the chorus in the album version, leading instead into a staccato of high-pitched strings and heavy drumming with some faint wailing in the background.

Source: Last Note Nightmare
Everything is nice, happy and peaceful until you reach an area heavy on vines, when a menacing black shadowy figure appears in the water, causing the turtle to faint into the water, forcing you to jump up on the vine.

Source: Video Game / Wario Land 3

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