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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tinted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tinted glass (=coloured rather than completely transparent)
▪ The car had tinted glass.
tinted glasses (=with coloured glass)
▪ He always wore a pair of tinted glasses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
glass
▪ Photophobic children are often recommended to wear dark or tinted glasses to ease the discomfort caused by bright light.
▪ He was photophobic and always wore a pair of tinted glasses to protect his eyes.
▪ Equipment includes a limited-slip differential, power steering, tinted glass, central locking and alloy wheels.
▪ A combination of the sun on the windscreen and the tinted glass made it impossible.
▪ In particularly sunny locations, tinted glass may be desirable as it cuts down both glare and heat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The limousine had tinted windows, so we couldn't see who was inside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ask your hairdresser about tinted lights, which add warmth and depth.
▪ Be careful to blend away base or tinted moisturiser into the neck.
▪ I don't wear any make-up, just a little tinted moisturiser to make my pale skin look a bit warmer.
▪ It follows on from a fine display of tinted autumn foliage.
▪ On the dresser two posed and tinted photographs rose from the undergrowth of brass.
▪ Photophobic children are often recommended to wear dark or tinted glasses to ease the discomfort caused by bright light.
▪ Smoked or tinted material is preferred as the instruments constructed can be more easily seen when set aside.
▪ You can, however, obtain some charming colour effects on a tinted background.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
tinted

colorful \colorful\ adj.

  1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

    Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]

    Syn: colourful.

  2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]

  3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.

    Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]

    Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).

Wiktionary
tinted
  1. Slightly colored, having tint. v

  2. (en-past of: tint)

Usage examples of "tinted".

And just as the bow that spans the mantling cloud reminds us of all beautiful things that glow around its antitype that spans the emerald throne on high, so, as we gaze upon the prismatic tints that are reflected from the oily surface, we dream of all that is beautiful in color and gorgeous in tinted radiance, as being hidden amid the elements of petroleum.

At fifty, Arroyo looked sleek, slick, and ready for prime time, his razor-cut pompadour in perfect order, glasses lightly tinted, manicured nails buffed to a subtle gloss.

The westering sun tinted the sky with evening colors of dusty gold and pale violet, flaming the woodland greens and burnishing the boles of towering chestnut and hawthorn with a gleam like bronze.

November 15th, Joseph Hullmandle, whose inventions and improvements connected with lithography, and tinted lithographic printing, contributed so much to the perfection of that branch of artistic skill.

Sometimes at the end of a day, when the sun was breaking sideways through gaps in the clouds out to sea, shining weakly in the tinted windows and illuminating their faces as they sat around two desks covered by reprints and offprints, they would talk over the issues involved, and compare their most recent results, and try to make sense of the problem.

The morning sunshine dazzled Planch, and the air was tinted pink, giving everything a warm, nostalgic glow.

The beautiful, shiny polyhedra were tinted crystal, grown around magnetic metal cores.

It showed at once a complete change of formation: the sides were painted with clays of variegated colours, crystallized lime and porphyritic conglomerates, tinted mauve-purple as if by manganese.

No mucus had been secreted, and the surrounding fluid was only just perceptibly tinted of a pale pink.

A cigarette droops from his mouth and a pair of tinted glasses sits slantwise on his nose.

The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky.

It consists of gracefully coiled stems, usually left uncoloured or softly tinted with yellow, and bearing here and there peculiar ornamental flowerets, while the grounds are picked out with various colours, on which are fine white triads of dots or traceries in delicate white or golden tendrils.

Virgin, where she looked now, the highlights were not opaque colors on the surface, but from the light underpainting tinted with ultramarine.

Electrically controlled gates open soundlessly and long cars with dark tinted glass glide out onto unlittered streets where there is no one in sight except the gardeners moving quietly across unnaturally green grass.

The sea was tinted allover pink and through its surface the islands of Penobscot Bay seemed to be ascending as if they would lift completely free of the sea and become part of the pattern above.