tint
verb/tɪnt/
/tɪnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tint | /tɪnt/ /tɪnt/ |
| he / she / it tints | /tɪnts/ /tɪnts/ |
| past simple tinted | /ˈtɪntɪd/ /ˈtɪntɪd/ |
| past participle tinted | /ˈtɪntɪd/ /ˈtɪntɪd/ |
| -ing form tinting | /ˈtɪntɪŋ/ /ˈtɪntɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] tint something (with something) to add a small amount of colour to something
- She’s having her eyelashes tinted.
- tint something to change the colour of somebody’s hair with a tint
- Have you tinted your hair?
Word Originearly 18th cent.: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta) of obsolete tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.
Check pronunciation:
tint