tint
noun /tɪnt/
/tɪnt/
- a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a small amount of colour covering a surface
- leaves with red and gold autumn tints
- the brownish tint of an old photo
- The fabrics were mainly in rich autumn tints, reds and oranges.
Synonyms colourcolourTopics Colours and Shapesc2- shade
- hue
- tint
- tinge
- colour the appearance that things have, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. Red, green and blue are colours: What’s your favourite colour?bright/dark/light colours
- shade a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue: Her eyes were a delicate shade of green.
- hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour: His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue.
- tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface: leaves with red and gold autumn tints
- tinge a small amount of a colour: There was a pink tinge to the sky.
- a warm/rich colour/shade/hue/tint
- a bright/vivid/vibrant/dark/deep colour/shade/hue
- a pale/pastel/soft/subtle/delicate colour/shade/hue
- a light/strong/neutral/natural colour/shade
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- light
- pale
- …
- have
- tint of
- an artificial colour used to change the colour of your hair; the act of colouring the hair with a tint
- a blond tint
- to have a tint
Word Originearly 18th cent.: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta) of obsolete tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.