Definitions for hint

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hint hint

Spelling: [hint]

IPA: /hɪnt/

Hint is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in hint (hint).

Definitions for hint

noun

1. an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue:
2. a very slight or hardly noticeable amount; soupçon:
3. perceived indication or suggestion; note; intimation:
4. Obsolete. an occasion or opportunity.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a hint of:

verb (used without object)

1. to make indirect suggestion or allusion; subtly imply (usually followed by at):

Origin of hint

1595-1605; (noun) orig., opportunity, occasion, apparently variant of obsolete hent grasp, act of seizing, derivative of the v.: to grasp, take, Middle English henten, Old English hentan; (v.

Examples for hint

And now, once again, there was a hint of the quizzical creeping in the smile.

There was no sign of a struggle, and no hint of marital dispute or financial problems.

We later learned that she had left him and was hoping he would catch the hint.

Animals in agony or danger are used by Martin Wittfooth, often to hint at the future of the human condition.

Just give me a hint, to keep me from 'bursting,' so to speak!

Wahlberg chimes in with the hint of a smirk: “The hard days of digging ditches!”

The woman is not looking into the camera, but there is a hint of a smile.

She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones.

She smiled, but there was a hint of grimness in the bending of her lips.

Is she not for ever obliged (as she was pleased to hint to me) to be of the forbearing side?