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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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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
Kaeding describes a cherry mocha as a shade that has a deep red or copper tint, but with a brunette base.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Indeed, a myriad of beauty products can be bought through your FSA — including trending picks and essentials like sunscreen, LED face masks, tinted moisturizers, and more.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
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Noun
In drug overdoses, skin color changes are often caused by cyanosis — low blood oxygen levels that can produce a blue or purple tint to the skin, lips and nails — according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
Kaeding describes a cherry mocha as a shade that has a deep red or copper tint, but with a brunette base.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
Verb
The primer will be tinted with a small amount of color pigment to approximate the paint color.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Indeed, a myriad of beauty products can be bought through your FSA — including trending picks and essentials like sunscreen, LED face masks, tinted moisturizers, and more.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
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“Tint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tint. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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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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