Synonyms:
undertone, tinge
Meaning: a pale or subdued color
Synonyms:
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
Meaning: a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
Meaning: color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
Synonyms:
tinge, color, colour, distort
Meaning: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
Usage examples
Besides, she resented the personal tinge.
Again he smiled, this time with a tinge of scorn, and shifted his eyes to the track.
Miss Woodville stood just behind them, and a faint tinge of color appeared in her pale face.
There was a perceptible tinge of horror in the look of astonishment with which Dr. Danvers listened.
"Be at ease, Lady Augusta," returned Constance, with a tinge of irony she could not wholly suppress.
Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure.
The look which he kept upon the basket was no less vigilant than before, but there was now a tinge of scorn in it.
Even as the thoughts were formed, there grew against the impalpable blackness that wrapped me a faint tinge of blood.
'Then why,' retorted Fledgeby, with some slight tinge of a blush, 'don't you out with your reason for having your spoon in the soup at all?'
But imagination here refines upon worldly interest. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.