tint

Speech parts

1. tint - Noun

2. tint - Verb

Meaning

A pale or faint tinge of any color.

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

touch tinge tinct hair dye rouge wash redden color dye Reid hue contrast cast tone colour
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Antonyms

whiting white lunar whiten blanch improve
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Hypernyms

color dye colour coloring colouring colorize

Hyponyms

amber violet coral olive lemon henna

Phrases with the word

clang tint herbaceous tint layer tint neutral tint rosy tint tint of pink

Derivatives

tinted tinting

Examples

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other So with sanity and insanity. Herman Melville

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint. Lewis Carroll

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. Adela Florence Nicolson

A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand. Scottish Proverb

All is not tint that is in peril. Scottish Proverb

Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

tinsnips Tinson tinstone tint block tint tool tinta