Word Meanings - TINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A slight coloring. Specifically: -- A pale or faint tinge of any color. Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. Pope. Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. Harte. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as,

Additional info about word: TINT

A slight coloring. Specifically: -- A pale or faint tinge of any color. Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. Pope. Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. Harte. 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. Tint tool , a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving. (more info) dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See Tinge, and cf. Taint

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TINT)

• Color
• Hue
• tint
• complexion
• pretense
• speciousness
• tinge
• garbling
• falsification
• distortion
• perversion
• varnish
• Paint Color
• portray
• represent
• delineate
• depict
• sketch
• describe
• Tinge Tincture
• color
• dye
• stain
• shade
• flavor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TINT)

• Purify
• wash
• cleanse
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to TINT)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• FALSIFICATION
  The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. (more info) 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• EMBLAZONING
  The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• TINCTURE
  One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory. Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• WARBURG'S TINCTURE
  A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.