tinge
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4.4
- noun
- /tɪndʒ/
- It's going to have more of like a pinkish tinge, which it would need to if it's been applied to fair skin.
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- And then Mars will just have that slight reddish tinge to it.
- It's kind of got like a duochrome green tinge to it.
- Why did our silver coin suddenly turn to a copper tinge, Brian?
- So pumps uses this laundry soap that has a little tinge of Patchouli in it, right?
- But blended with the ladder notice will be a tinge of ridicule which spoils them.
- So he goes on and he says this, this peculiar tinge of spirit.
Examples
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The one cigarette had already left a tinge of yellow on the fingertip of her satin glove.
Fiction book (1995) -
"As the sun Rose higher, the snow on the plane took on a pink tinge.
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And she went over all of the areas of the black just to add a little warm tinge to it.
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Fall has a little tinge of incredible color that is just not seen in spring.
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You can barely see a blue tinge over southern England, right?
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Honey, I'm hearing a tinge of doubt in your voice.
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And I would submit to you that where we see something funny, it's always with a tinge of darkness.
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I feel like there's a tinge of regret.
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The moonlight had lent a silver tinge to these old ruined buildings in the narrow streets.
Fiction book (1996) -
The sunset painted the sky with a beautiful tinge of orange and pink.
Synonyms
168
3.8
A small amount that makes something a little different
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1.8
A small amount of something that you can notice
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1.5
A very small amount of something you can taste, see, or feel
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5.1
A very small amount
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3.6
A small amount of a feeling, like sadness or excitement
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6.0
A faint color beneath a main color that changes how it looks
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7.7
A small amount of a color or feeling that is easy to miss
A very small amount of something, like a tiny taste or hint
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Etymology
Tinge comes from an old word that meant 'to dye' or 'give colour', and it is like the simple word tint, which means a small colour. So a tinge is a small amount of colour or feeling added to something.