TINGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tinge mean? 

• TINGE (noun)
  The noun TINGE has 2 senses:

1. a slight but appreciable amount

2. a pale or subdued color

  Familiarity information: TINGE used as a noun is rare.

• TINGE (verb)
  The verb TINGE has 2 senses:

1. affect as in thought or feeling

2. color lightly

  Familiarity information: TINGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight but appreciable amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

hint; jot; mite; pinch; soupcon; speck; tinge; touch

Context example:

this dish could use a touch of garlic

Hypernyms ("tinge" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tinge"):

snuff (a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pale or subdued color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

tinge; undertone

Hypernyms ("tinge" is a kind of...):

shade; tincture; tint; tone (a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color)

Derivation:

tinge (color lightly)

• TINGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tinge    ... he / she / it tinges   
Past simple: tinged   
Past participle: tinged   
-ing form: tingeing    / tinging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affect as in thought or feeling

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

color; colour; distort; tinge

Context example:

The sadness tinged his life

Hypernyms (to "tinge" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Color lightly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

tinct; tinge; tint; touch

Context example:

the leaves were tinged red in November

Hypernyms (to "tinge" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tinge"):

henna (apply henna to one's hair)

tincture (stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color)

complexion (give a certain color to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

tincture (a substance that colors or dyes)

tinge (a pale or subdued color)

 Context examples 

That awful journal gets hold of my imagination and tinges everything with something of its own colour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He read the thought upon my features, and his smile had a tinge of bitterness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring with frightened eyes at his accuser.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our client had sat up with staring eyes and every tinge of colour struck from his astonished face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every instant now was in favour of Berks, and already his breathing was easier and the bluish tinge fading from his face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“By Saint James of Santiago!” cried Don Pedro, with a tinge of color upon his pale cheeks, “win who will, this has been a most notable contest.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)