tint

¹tint

noun \ˈtint\

: a small amount of color

: dye used to change the color of hair

: an act of changing the color of hair by using dye

Full Definition of TINT

1

a :  a usually slight or pale coloration :  hue

b :  any of various lighter or darker shades of a color :  tinge

2

:  a variation of a color produced by adding white to it and characterized by a low saturation with relatively high lightness

3

:  a usually slight modifying quality or characteristic :  touch

4

:  a shaded effect in engraving produced by fine parallel lines close together

5

:  a panel of light color serving as background

6

:  dye for the hair

Examples of TINT

1. a photo with a sepia tint
2. green with a yellowish tint
3. She got a red tint at the salon.

Origin of TINT

alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus act of dyeing, from tingere to tinge

First Known Use: 1717

Related to TINT

Synonyms

cast, hue, shade, tincture, tinge, color, tone

Related Words

overtone, undertone; primary color, secondary color, tertiary color; brightness, chroma, chromaticity, contrast, lightness, saturation, value; coloration, coloring, colorway, pigmentation

Near Antonyms

achromatism

Rhymes with TINT

bint, dint, flint, glint, hint, lint, mint, print, quint, skint, splint, sprint, squint, stint, suint

²tint

transitive verb

: to give a small amount of color to (something)

Full Definition of TINT

:  to impart or apply a tint to :  color

— tint·er noun

Examples of TINT

1. They tinted the water with blue dye.
2. <if you tint that blue paint with this yellow paint, you should get a nice shade of green>

First Known Use of TINT

1791

Related to TINT

Synonyms

bepaint [archaic], dye, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, color

Antonyms

decolorize

Related Words

brighten, lighten; darken, embrown, tone (down); checker, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, speck, speckle, streak, striate, stripe, variegate

Near Antonyms

blanch, bleach, whiten

Other Fine Arts Terms

Gothic, baroque, bas-relief, limn, oeuvre, pastiche, rococo, sfumato