Antonyms for hint

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : hint

Phonetic Transcription : hɪnt

Definition of hint

Origin : c.1600, apparently from obsolete hent, from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c.1400), from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijanan (cf. Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.). Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.

noun indication; suggestion
verb suggest; indicate

Example sentences :

She had completed the verse with the hint of a sneer in her tones.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Is she not for ever obliged (as she was pleased to hint to me) to be of the forbearing side?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Just give me a hint, to keep me from 'bursting,' so to speak!
Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts

She smiled, but there was a hint of grimness in the bending of her lips.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

And now, once again, there was a hint of the quizzical creeping in the smile.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

She stated the fact as one without a hint of any contradictory possibility.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

There is no hint of them in Plutarch, no word about them in the play.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

"It was when the seed corn was gathered that we had the first hint of trouble," she went on.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Everybody was in motion on this hint, and the first thing we did was to board fore-tack.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Then you can give me no kind of—of—hint like, to find them out?
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for hint

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