tint
/tɪnt/
tint noun: a slight coloring.
Noun
tint (plural tints)
- A slight coloring.
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
- A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
- About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36
- I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots
Verb
tint (third-person singular simple present tints, present participle tinting, simple past and past participle tinted)
- To shade, to color.
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Contraction
tint
tint meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
tint in Hindi
- टिंट
tint in Tamil
- சாயல், மென்னிறம், நிறம், திறம், நிறச் சாயல், நிறச்சாயல்
tint in Malayalam
- ചായം, ഇളം നിറം, നിറം
tint in Kannada
- ನಸುಬಣ್ಣ, ಬಣ್ಣದ ಗುರುತು, ಬಣ್ಣದ ಛಾಯೆ, ತಿಳಿಬಣ್ಣ
More languagesFewer languages
- tint in Gujarati
- ટીન્ટ
- tint in Nepali
- टिन्ट
Examples of tint in a sentence
- The deflorate rose-bushes take on a brownish tint.
- She had a little southern accent that tinted her Ghanaian one.
- Pepper’s world was way more colorful, as if viewed through Lennon’s new tinted wireframe “tea-shade” glasses.
Synonyms of tint
Forms of tint
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tints |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tints |
| present participle | tinting |
| past participle | tinted |
| past | tinted |
| Contraction | |
| alternative form | int |
Origin of tint
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Contraction.
Words formed from tint
Phrases with tint
Words that rhyme with tint
Questions about tint
- What does tint mean?
- Tint means a slight coloring.
- What is tint in Hindi?
- Tint in Hindi is टिंट. See Tint meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tint?
- Tint can be a noun, a verb or a contraction.
- How do you pronounce tint?
- Tint is pronounced /tɪnt/.
- What is the plural of tint?
- The plural of tint is tints.
Words near tint in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tint (page history and authors); tint (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tint (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tint (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tint (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tint (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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