hint

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    an indirect suggestion
    a slight indication
    a slight but appreciable addition
    a just detectable amount
    an indication of potential opportunity
  • Verb:
    drop a hint; intimate by a hint

Word Origin

hint (n.)
c. 1600, apparently from obsolete hent, from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c. 1400), from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.). Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
hint (v.)
1640s, from hint (n.). Related: Hinted; hinting.

Synonym

Example

1. There is not a hint of this in wikileaks .
2. A hint of pink gives this crimson a pretty edge .
3. One helpful hint the designer offered was a warning to be extra nice to the next-door neighbors .
4. Was that some kind of hint ?
5. Any hint of a political view would roil markets .

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