Definitions for hints

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hints hint

Spelling: [hint]

IPA: /hɪnt/

Hints is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in hints (hinst).

Definitions for hints

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 hints

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 hints

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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