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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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Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 8 June 2026
To round out the collection, Rhode is also releasing limited-edition shades of its peptide lip shapes and tints as well as accessories such as bags, towels and lip cases.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 June 2026
ABC News, 28 May 2026
Creamy and well-pigmented, this is designed to tint the lips with barely-there color, applied without precision, and flushed out with the smudger tool on the opposite end of the crayon.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 22 May 2026
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Noun
The sheen gave my lips a nice pop without looking too shiny, and my shade, soft sand, blended seamlessly into the natural shade of my lips for a subtle tint.
—Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 8 June 2026
To round out the collection, Rhode is also releasing limited-edition shades of its peptide lip shapes and tints as well as accessories such as bags, towels and lip cases.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Verb
The wet process involves washing jeans with water, chemicals and treatments that lighten or tint the denim.
—ABC News, 28 May 2026
Creamy and well-pigmented, this is designed to tint the lips with barely-there color, applied without precision, and flushed out with the smudger tool on the opposite end of the crayon.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 22 May 2026
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“Tint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tint. Accessed 10 Jun. 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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