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Bookmark or Share- Fain - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.comThe old-fashioned adverb fain describes the manner of gladly or willingly doing something. You would fain have stayed home, but you had to venture out in the rain. Fain comes from the Old English fægen , meaning "happy, glad, or well pleased."
- FAIN | English meaning - Cambridge DictionaryMeaning of fain in English. fain. adverb. old use uk / feɪn / us / feɪn / Add to word list. willingly or happily: I would fain forget what I had done. Synonym. gladly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Ready and willing. agreeable. amenable. at someone's beck and call idiom. at your command idiom. be chafing at the bit idiom. beck.
- Fain Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. a. : willing. he was very fain, for the young widow was "altogether fair and lovely … " Amy Kelly. b. : being obliged or constrained : compelled. Great Britain was fain to devote its whole energy … to the business of slaying and being slain G. M. Trevelyan. 2. archaic : happy, pleased. 3. archaic : inclined, desirous. fain. 2 of 2. adverb. 1.
- FAIN Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comFain definition: gladly; willingly. See examples of FAIN used in a sentence.
- FAIN | definition in the Cambridge English DictionaryMeaning of fain in English. fain. adverb. old use us / feɪn / uk / feɪn / Add to word list. willingly or happily: I would fain forget what I had done. Synonym. gladly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Ready and willing. agreeable. amenable. at someone's beck and call idiom. at your command idiom. be chafing at the bit idiom. beck.
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