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tint Definition

tint (tint)

noun

  1. a delicate or pale color or hue; tinge
  2. a color or a shading of a color; esp., a gradation of a color with reference to its mixture with white
  3. a dye for the hair
  4. Engraving an even shading produced by fine parallel lines
  5. Printing a light-colored background, as for an illustration

Etymology: earlier tinct < L tinctus, a dyeing, dipping < pp. of tingere, to dye, tinge

transitive verb

to give a tint to

tint Related Forms

tint′er noun

tint Synonyms

tint

n.

tinge, hue, shade, color value, cast, flush, dye, coloring, tinct, taint, glow, pastel color, luminous color, pale hue, tone, tincture, dash, touch, chroma, luminosity, coloration, pigmentation, ground color, complexion; see also color 1.

Antonyms whiteness*, flatness, colorlessness. See syn. study at color.color.

tint Usage Examples

Object

  • visor: It also has an internal movable tinted visor, which is an interesting way round the law.
  • moisturizer: Make up should be light tinted moisturizer is a great choice for glowing summer skin.
  • spectacle: The amounts they ate compared to me - well I just had to keep my rose tinted spectacles on didn't I!
  • glass: He will have to wear tinted glasses for the rest of his life.
  • windscreen: The smiling and waving stops, sour angst ridden faces peer straight ahead from behind tinted windshields.
  • spec: She was bought with a very effective pair of rose tinted specs.

Adjective modifier

  • greenish: It was a fine trout with a greenish tint to its markings and bold, dark yellow spots.
  • bluish: Some of the specimens looked almost as tho they had been coated with a dark metal film, while others had a bluish tint.
  • sepia: Just pick a special effect like sepia tint, x-ray, bulge or squeeze.
  • reddish: There are none of the orange or reddish tints which one finds in many of our Mendip caves.
  • yellowish: Males have blue-violet rumps and wings, while hens have a yellowish tint to their faces.
  • purple: Tiny flowers appear in April with a purple tint.

Modifies a noun

plate: Image taken using polarized light microscopy with a sensitive tint plate.

Modifying Another Word

lightly: Conversely, you can ' punch up ' lightly tinted expanses with darker or richer accents.

Noun used with modifier

  • eyelash: Each stage of an eyelash tint demonstration was recorded in digital format and transferred to CD and the college VLE.
  • autumn: Trees blazed like giant flowers in their autumn tints.
  • flesh: Warm flesh tints, more especially in a fair complexion are impossible out of doors, except in an evening effect.
  • gray: The nearer slopes should also be graded a slight gray tint.

Preposition: of

color: Busy with curb and snaffle reins, head bent, into her oval face a tint of color crept.

Preposition: with

pigment: Break edges color filled with Fynebond resin bulked with fumed silica and tinted with dry powder pigments to tone with the original glaze.