Word Finder - tinged

definition

To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.

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• tinct

definition

To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.

definition

To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life.

Darian met her gaze, his features resolved yet tinged with the same sorrow she felt.

Its materials are pebbles, clays and sands of various' colours from white to deep red, tinged with peroxide of iron, which sometimes cements the pebbles and sands into compact rocks.

It is written in pure Latin and is strongly tinged by classical influences.

It is well known that in after years he had doubts whether he should not compose his great work in French; and it is certain that his familiarity with that language, in spite of considerable efforts to counteract its effects, tinged his style to the last.

It contains a colourless fluid, with flat, oval, nucleated corpuscles, as a rule colourless, but in some cases tinged with yellow or red haemoglobin.

His style is strongly tinged with preciosite; and his chief surviving interest is as a glaring example of the evils from which Bossuet delivered the French pulpit.

Macaulay's description of Whitgift as "a narrow, mean, tyrannical priest, who gained power by servility and adulation," is tinged with rhetorical exaggeraticn; but undoubtedly Whitgift's extreme High Church notions led him to treat the Puritans with exceptional intolerance.

The air was tinged with the scent of burning wood and melted metals, sulfur, and the facility's damp mustiness.

Signs of this fire are still visible on the walls, which are in part tinged red by the flames.

This last was slightly tinged with modern socialism; it was described as "the social Magna Carta of Catholicism," and it won for Leo the name of "the workingman's pope."

His narratives are detailed and often tinged with romance, and he is certainly much inferior to Wagidi in accuracy.

But from the fact that the bulk of the Tunisian population belongs to the Iberian section of the Berbers, and to this being no doubt the fundamental stock of most Italian peoples, the intermixture of the Italianized Berber with his African brother has not much affected the physique of the people, though it may have slightly tinged their mental characteristics.

Pure potassium is a silvery white metal tinged with blue; but on exposure to air it at once forms a film of oxide, and on prolonged exposure deliquesces into a solution of hydrate and carbonate.

By his father's side, who followed the occupation of a tanner, he was descended from a family long known in the district, and the purity of whose Scottish lineage had been tinged by alliance with French Protestant refugees; but it was from his mother's race, the Lowthers, farmers or small proprietors in Annandale, that he seems to have derived the most distinctive features of his personality.

Most have a dense, darker flavor, tinged with sweetness, that makes them ideal when paired with cheese such as Stilton.

The protoplasm itself may be tinged with colouring matter, bright red, yellow, &c., and may occasionally contain substances other than the deeply-staining granules.

Its nest is a light construction of dry rushes, having its foundation in the water, and contains as many as six eggs, which are white tinged with buff.

Although he was tinged with republican ideas and had rendered himself obnoxious to Queen Anne by opposing the grant to her husband, Prince George, through the influence of Marlborough he was foisted into the ministry as secretary of state for the southern department, taking office in December 1706.

Platinized platinum (platinum foil upon which a thin film of platinum had been deposited electrolytically) and charcoal were rendered incandescent, black paper and matches immediately inflamed, ordinary brown paper pierced and burned, while thin white blotting-paper, owing to its transparency to the invisible rays, was scarcely tinged.

Carlyle's famous work, published in 1837, is more of a prose epic than a history, omitting all detail which would not heighten the imaginative effect and tinged by all the favourite ideas of the author.

The profound horror with which the Christian's conception of a suffering as well as an avenging divinity tended to make him regard all condemnable acts was tinged with a sentiment which we may perhaps describe as a ceremonial aversion moralized - the aversion, that is, to foulness or impurity.

That there are in the Eddas and Sagas early ideas and later ideas tinged by Christian legend seems indubitable, but philological and historical learning has by no means settled the questions of relative purity and antiquity tin the myths.

White tinged pink scented flowers among congested evergreen foliage.

Gradually the tints became paler; shades of soft pink just tinged the far-off clouds, and a delicate lilac fell on the waters.

This elder has large panicles of ivory flowers tinged with pink in summer, followed by tiny black fruits.

Closer up its delicate beige petals were tinged with a deep rose at the base.

The semi-acoustic bounce of eponymous track rattlebox slips lightly into the chiming country tinged ballad that ends the first set.

On Sunday the band will be playing rockabilly tinged 50s blues at the Jailhouse Rock Bar.

Tinged with glorious Spanish heritage, a holiday in Majorca comes complete with traditional daily siestas and fine food.

Her rich gospel tinged voice is perfectly illustrated in the emotive ' Mama ', featured here.

They include well known local performer Ben Blance with his blend of folk tinged with rock.

The opening track ' Macassar ' is a brilliant jazz tinged piece with excellent playing from Latimer.

Kiss Me To Tremors Another 60s pop tinged track.

Forewings heavily tinged with brown, except at the base.

A dull gray green sometimes tinged with purple, Agrostis.

In spring the fresh green foliage is often tinged with pink, bronze or red.

Praise where it is due, likewise criticism, all tinged with the overall dissatisfaction of your average County cricket member.

Brian Ashford Russell of Polar Capital Technology Trust is relatively optimistic, but his optimism is also tinged with caution.

In structure and some of its habits much resembling a bullfinch, but much exceeding that bird in size, it has the plumage of a crossbill and appears to undergo the same changes as do the members of the restricted genus Loxia - the young being of a dull greenish-grey streaked with brownish-black, the adult liens tinged with golden-green, and the cocks glowing with crimson-red on nearly all the body-feathers, this last colour being replaced after moulting in confinement by bright yellow.

The new ministers had long since made monarchical professions of faith, but, up to the moment of taking office, were nevertheless considered to be tinged with an almost revolutionary hue.

At Athens, the philosophers who taught in the schools hallowed by memories of Plato still openly professed what passed for Paganism, though it was really a body of moral doctrine, strongly tinged with mysticism, in which there was far more of Christianity and of the speculative metaphysics of the East than of the old Olympian religion.

Monstrelet's own writings, dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly, and reported speeches which are probably, authentic. The author, however, shows little power of narration; his work, although clear, is dull, and is strongly tinged with the pedantry of its century, the most pedantic in French history.

The feathers of the head and neck, except on the crown and nape, where they are dark brown, are dingy white, and those of the body ash-coloured tinged with brown, while on the breast they are brownish-black, and on the belly and thighs white.

Leaving the forest zone and entering the more open country there are, on the north from the Niger to the Nile, a number of Negroids strongly tinged with Libyan blood and professing the Mahommedan religion.

That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue.

The semi-acoustic bounce of eponymous track Rattlebox slips lightly into the chiming country tinged ballad that ends the first set.

Gold Cup day is always tinged with the sadness of ending.

Exposed to a high-pitched tone, S responded, It looks something like fireworks tinged with a pink-red hue.

It was a happy brooding, although tinged with regret at being separated for an indefinite time from her gentle aunt and dear cousin.