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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