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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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025
There’s a tinge of hope to everything on this record that is exciting.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
Unfortunately, her memories of it are tinged with sadness.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The blue tinge of Garrett’s corpse’s finger signals that he was poisoned, though, and this led to the discovery that Garrett’s father had sent him to the Rave’N to poison the outcasts, only the poison vial cracked and leeched into his skin instead.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025
There’s a tinge of hope to everything on this record that is exciting.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025
Verb
Reid’s 1973 album, River, stands out as the gem in his catalog for its mix of progressive folk tinged with elements of R&B, funk, pop, and samba.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
Unfortunately, her memories of it are tinged with sadness.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
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“Tinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinge. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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