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
- 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
- acquaint
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- advice
- advise
- allude to
- allusion
- angle
- announcement
- apprise
- bring up
- broach
- clue
- coax
- communication
- connotation
- connote
- cue
- denotation
- drop
- evidence
- expose
- fish
- flea in ear
- foreshadow
- give an inkling
- glimmering
- help
- idea
- impart
- implication
- imply
- impression
- infer
- inference
- inform
- information
- inkling
- innuendo
- insinuate
- insinuation
- intimate
- intimation
- iota
- jog memory
- lead
- leak
- let it be known
- let out of bag
- make
- mention
- notice
- notion
- observation
- omen
- point
- pointer
- prefigure
- press
- prompt
- put flea in ear
- recall
- refer to
- reference
- remind
- reminder
- say in passing
- scent
- shadow
- sign
- signification
- signify
- smattering
- solicit
- spring
- suspicion
- symptom
- taste
- telltale
- tinge
- tip
- tip off
- tip one's hand
- tip-off
- token
- touch on
- trace
- warning
- whiff
- whisper
- wink
- word to wise
- wrinkle
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