tingenoun [ C ]
uk/tɪndʒ/us/tɪndʒ/a very slight amount of a colour or of a feeling:
His hair is starting to show tinges of grey.
I felt a tinge of regret that I hadn't accepted her offer.
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Colour - general words
- chromatic
- color wheel
- colored
- colour
- colour wheel
- coloured
- coloured
- discolour
- dye
- high-visibility
- pigment
- pigmentation
- run
- spectral
- spectrum
- stain
- tie-dye
- tinted
- tone
- tone in
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Feelings - general words
tingeverb [ T usually passive ]
uk/tɪndʒ/us/tɪndʒ/to contain a slight amount of:
Her joy at the birth of her son was tinged with sadness that her father had not lived to see him.
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- extend
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- pack
- package
- plug (sth/sb) into sth
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
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tinged
adjective uk/tɪndʒd/us/tɪndʒd/
Her dark hair is now tinged with grey.