/tɪŋkt/
OriginFrom Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
- archaicA tint or colour.
“blue of heaven's own tinct”
“[She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]”
“The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.”
- abbreviation, alt-ofAbbreviation of tincture.
- tinged or lightly coloured
“The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]”
Formstincts(plural) · tincts(present, singular, third-person) · tincting(participle, present) · tincted(participle, past) · tincted(past) · more tinct(comparative) · most tinct(superlative)