- a slight tint or colouring
- any slight addition
- to colour or tint faintly
- to impart a slight trace to: her thoughts were tinged with nostalgia
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
tinge /tɪndʒ/USA pronunciation
v., tinged, tinge•ing or ting•ing, n.
v. [~ + object]
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026v. [~ + object]
- to give a slight degree of color to;
tint:walls tinged with brown from the rusty steam pipes. - to give a slight trace of (some) feeling or emotion to:praise tinged with envy.
n. [countable]
- a slight trace, as of coloring.
tinge (tinj),USA pronunciation
v., tinged, tinge•ing or ting•ing, n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
- to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to;
tint. - to impart a slight taste or smell to.
n.
- a slight degree of coloration.
- a slight admixture, as of some qualifying property or characteristic;
trace;
smattering:a tinge of garlic; a tinge of anger.
- Latin tingere to dye, color
- 1470–80
- 4. hint, shade, nuance, suspicion.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
tinge /tɪndʒ/ n
'tinged' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bittersweet
- burnet
- calcite
- dusty
- gooseberry
- tinge
- air plant
- alala
- atamasco lily
- bismuth
- black perch
- clair de lune
- cockatoo
- contempt
- fly honeysuckle
- intertinge or
- Java sparrow
- leaf lettuce
- moth orchid
- nankeen lily
- olive
- pneumonia
- potato vine
- reddish
- retinge or
- revere
- reverence
- roseate
- Royal Anne
- rufescent
- rufous
- taupe
- tawny
- tinct
- untinged
- whitecup
- wonder
- yellowish
- yellow lady's-slipper
- sanguinolent
- show
- Spanish jasmine
- spring beauty