Tinted means given a light wash of colour. Tinted glass, tinted moisturiser, lightly tinted.
The lightness is what makes it a tint rather than a colour — tinted glass still lets you see through and tinted moisturiser still shows the skin. In law, how dark a car's tinted windows may be is regulated. Note tint, from the Latin for dyed, the same root as tinge.
1adjectivetintedGiven a light wash of colour.
“She wore tinted glasses that gave everything a soft rosy glow.”
tinted is a quality of light colouring.
Proto-Indo-European
*teng-
Latin
tīnctus — dyed
French
teinte — tint
English
tint
English, today
tinted
Built from
tint Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). a doublet of tent. Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, lb Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
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