tint
Plural: tints
Noun
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- 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.
- 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.
Verb
Verb Forms: tint, tinted, tinting, tints
- To color slightly; to apply a delicate shade.
- color lightly
- To shade, to color.
Contraction
- it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't
Examples
- He tried to TINT the board with his preferred vowels, but the consonants dominated.
- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
Origin / Etymology
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“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.
Scrabble Score: 4
tint: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtint: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tint: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary