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Definition of Tinge
1. Noun. A slight but appreciable amount. "This dish could use a touch of garlic"
Generic synonyms: Small Indefinite Amount, Small Indefinite Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Snuff
2. Verb. Affect as in thought or feeling. "The sadness tinged his life"
Generic synonyms: Affect, Bear On, Bear Upon, Impact, Touch, Touch On
3. Noun. A pale or subdued color.
4. Verb. Color lightly. "The leaves were tinged red in November"
Specialized synonyms: Henna, Tincture, Complexion
Generic synonyms: Color, Color In, Colorise, Colorize, Colour, Colour In, Colourise, Colourize
Derivative terms: Tincture, Tint, Tinter, Tinting
Definition of Tinge
1. v. t. To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.
2. n. A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.
Definition of Tinge
1. Noun. A small amount of something, especially of an added colour. ¹
2. Noun. The degree of vividness of a colour; shade, hue or tint. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinge
1. to apply a trace of color to [v TINGED, TINGEING or TINGING, TINGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinge
Literary usage of Tinge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1890)
"... towards the a|>ex, with a alight brassy tinge. LAKVA. —Length of the full
grown larva 8—12 inni. Body cylindrical, tapering slightly towards each end. ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... and we were relieved from the trouble of watching for rocks, we saw by the
flitting clouds, by the first russet tinge on the hills, by the rushing river ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"In the town of Saugerties the gray color of the stone disappears, and the formation
takes on the deep-blue tinge whence it gets its name. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... he adds, able in less heterodox writers, and which imparts some tinge of
consolation to the melancholy and painful retrospect of his life and opinions. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1775)
"... and to heighten the tinge, when it is too faint, by throwing in a few halfpence.
In fome of the mod modern books of cookery, quoted by the Author, ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"Piles of silken cushions, with their raw Chinese hues, lay on the sofa and on
the white carpet which they seemed to tinge like great blots of spilt colour. ..."
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