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: a variation of a color produced by adding white to it and characterized by a low saturation with relatively high lightness
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: dye for the hair
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: a usually slight modifying quality or characteristic : touch
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: a shaded effect in engraving produced by fine parallel lines close together
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: a panel of light color serving as background
Examples of tint in a Sentence
Noun
a photo with a sepia tint
green with a yellowish tint
She got a red tint at the salon.
Verb
They tinted the water with blue dye.
if you tint that blue paint with this yellow paint, you should get a nice shade of green
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Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 29 May 2025
Luckily, Tower 28 tackled that drawback by adding a blendable universal tint to the formula, camouflaging the active ingredient’s stark white finish.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 23 May 2025
Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 30 May 2025
The mascara has been a cult favorite for years, but last month, the clean-beauty brand released Before Dawn—a universally flattering brown shade—that promises to tint, lengthen, lift, and separate your lashes.
—The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 29 May 2025
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Noun
The deep red-plum tint subtly brightens the whites of your eyes and flatters all eye colors, especially greens and hazels.
—Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 29 May 2025
Luckily, Tower 28 tackled that drawback by adding a blendable universal tint to the formula, camouflaging the active ingredient’s stark white finish.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 23 May 2025
Verb
The new generation of lip sunscreen is taking new forms, branching out from basic balms into silky lip glosses, hydrating lip oils, and even tinted lip balms with SPF that actually feel like a treat to wear.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 30 May 2025
The mascara has been a cult favorite for years, but last month, the clean-beauty brand released Before Dawn—a universally flattering brown shade—that promises to tint, lengthen, lift, and separate your lashes.
—The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 29 May 2025
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“Tint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tint. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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tint
1 of 2 noun1
a
: a slight or pale coloring
b
: any of various shades of a color
2
: a variation of a color made by adding white to it
tint
2 of 2 verb
: to give or apply a tint or color to
tinted glasses
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