1
: a slight staining or suffusing shade or color
2
: an affective or modifying property or influence : touch
a tinge of guilt
tinged; tingeing or tinging
ˈtin-jiŋ 
1
a
: to color with a slight shade or stain : tint
b
: to affect or modify with a slight odor or taste
2
: to affect or modify in character
Examples of tinge in a Sentence
Noun
showing a tinge of color
dark hair with reddish tinges
Verb
The ink tinged his fingers blue.
just slightly tinge the frosting with yellow food coloring to give it a lemony look
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Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
This 100% Chenin from Minus Tide, made from old-vine grapes, offers a tinge of honey on the nose with wild and savory herbs in the undertow.
—Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
John Hopewell, Variety, 25 June 2025
Only the first and last chords in the sequence are solid triads, the rest tinged by dissonance to one degree or another.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Noun
Classical composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninoff had this dark quality with a tinge of beauty to them.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
This 100% Chenin from Minus Tide, made from old-vine grapes, offers a tinge of honey on the nose with wild and savory herbs in the undertow.
—Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
For me thrillers, especially when tinged with horror, are a support structure, to construct stories which are gripping, and which gives you the chance to talk about personal and emotional conflicts which really drive the story, and not just those of the three protagonists.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 25 June 2025
Only the first and last chords in the sequence are solid triads, the rest tinged by dissonance to one degree or another.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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“Tinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinge. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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