Hint

Definition: Hint

Hint

Noun

1. An indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her".

2. A slight indication.

3. A small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic".

4. A just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent".

5. An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job".

Verb

1. Drop a hint; intimate by a hint.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Hint \Hint\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Hinted; Hinting.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

HINT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Hint

Indication

Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent.

Information

Hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink; (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear.

Hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture; (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; insinuation; (latency).

Intelligence Wisdom

Verb: be -intelligent; Adjective: have all one's wits about one; understand; (intelligible); catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take a hint.

Memory

Suggestion; (information); prompting; Verb: hint, reminder; remembrancer, flapper; memorial; (record); commemoration; (celebration).

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Supposition

Inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion.

Allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.

Zero

Adjective: not one, not a one, not any, nary a one;not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.

Crosswords: Hint

Hungarian (scatter, sow, strew, strewed, strewn, to dredge, to scatter, to sprinkle, to strew, to strew, strewed, strewn), Turkish (indian, indo-).

Let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major-league yabbos (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney)

I'll give you a hint. He was made of wood by a weirdo named Geppetto (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan)

Thanks for the hint! (Fierce Creatures; writing credit: John Cleese; Iain Johnstone)

Please don't hint that you're capable of lies (First Date; performing artist: Blink-182)

I take them caramel with a hint of vanilla (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David)

Blame me, I tried to hint those (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous)

Ma, take a hint (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake)

The hint of the century (Losing My Religion; performing artist: R.E.M.)

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Books

• A Hint of Frost-Essays from the Earth (reference)

• A Hint of Scandal (Second Chance at Love, No 385) (reference)

• A Hint of Witchcraft (reference)

• Hint of Rapture (reference)

• Hint of Scandal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hint of Mess (reference)

• Hint of Mess [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pausing in her work, as a hint for him to advance. Credit: Library of Congress.

After Apr. 1st : a household hint. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Baltimore hint to Paris : the (W)right fashion for the fall / Felix Mahony. Credit: Library of Congress.

Those service uniforms on hot days. A gentle hint to Police Commissioner Swann. Credit: Library of Congress.

A hint for the horticultural society. Great show of "chignons." Medal awarded to the finest grown specimen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She would not stir a step, nor drop a hint.

Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing

Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life

His eyes were very dark brown and there was a hint of brown pigment in his eyeballs

Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided

I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished

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Economic History

Korea

Moving swiftly to restore investor confidence and avoiding any hint of a bail out, the Korean government facilitated agreements between the stricken company's affiliates and Daewoo's domestic and foreign creditors. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRALIA

The resultant improvement in the labor market has seen unemployment fall below seven percent for the first time in a decade, with little hint of wage inflation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hint": a broad hint ♦ a hint of smile ♦ broad hint ♦ by way of a hint ♦ drop a hint ♦ gentle hint ♦ give a delicate hint ♦ give a hint ♦ hint at ♦ hint of a smile ♦ not a hint of ♦ take a hint ♦ take the hint ♦ To hint at. Additional references.

Beginning with "hint": hint-dropping, hint-of-tint.

Afrikaans

wenk (tip). (various references)

Albanian

hedh fjalën (allude, hint at, insinuate, refer), shenjë paralajmëruese (harbinger, precursor), paralajmëroj (admonish, bespeak, bode, caution, exhort, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, notice, presage, previse, threaten, tip off, tip the wink, warn), lë të kuptohet (hint at, imply, insinuate), jap shenjë, informatë (information), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), e thënë tërthorazi, e dhënë (clue, datum, indication, pointer), bëj aluzion, aluzion (allusion, cue, inkling, innuendo, intimation, pointing, reference). (various references)

Arabic 

رمز (sign, symbol), ‏مقدار ضئيل (crumb, dab, dash, dribble, element, glimmer, mouthful, nip, peanut, smack, trace, trifle, whit), ‏لمح (allude, behold, catch, catch sight of, descry, espy, glance at, glimpse, imply, see, sight, spy, suggest, twig), ‏تلميح (allusion, cue, innuendo, insinuation, periphrasis, suggestion), ‏إشارة (allusion, cue, denotation, forerunner, gesture, index, indication, innuendo, mark, motion, pitch, prognostic, reference, sign, signal, tip off), ‏أوحى (inspire, inspire with, insufflate, suggest), ‏أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кратък съвет, намеквам (allude, get at, insinuate, intimate), намек (allusion, cue, dig, feeler, half word, indirection, inkling, insinuation, intimation, office, pointer, side glance, suggestion, tip off, wink), подсказвам (give a hint, indite, prompt, suggest, tell the answer), подхвърлям (abandon, expose, fling, insinuate, interject, interpose, leave, throw up, toss, toss about), подшушвам (give smb. a tip-off, tip, whisper), подмятане (allusion, intimation, pointer, throwing). (various references)

Chinese 

暗示 (drop a hint, suggest, suggestion), 提示 (Prompt, Prompted, Prompting, reminder). (various references)

Czech

tip (guess, tip), rada (advice, board, council, councillor, soviet, suggestion, tip), pokynout (beckon, wave on), pokyn (directive, instruction, sign, tip off, wink, wrinkle), narážka (allusion, cue, implication, innuendo, insinuation, pointer), náznak (evidence, implication, inkling, insinuation, intimation, overtones, savor, smack, suggestion, suspicion, trace, undertone), doporuèení (commendation, introduction, recommendation, reference, say so, suggestion). (various references)

Dutch

zinspelen (allude). (various references)

Esperanto

konsileto (tip), aludi (allude). (various references)

Faeroese

sipa til (allude), reka fram undir (allude), benda á (allude). (various references)

Farsi 

چیزخیلی جزءی , تذکر (Mention, Notification, Remembrance), ایما, اشاره کردن (Abode, Allude, Imply, Insinuate, Mention, Motion, Nudge, Sign), اشاره (Allusion, Beck, Beckon, Ensign, Gesture, Inkling, Innuendo, Manifest, Mention, Referral, Slur, Symbol). (various references)

Finnish

viitata (allude, beckon, hold up one's hand, indicate, motion, point, point out, refer, suggest). (various references)

French

insinuer, faire allusion. (various references)

German

tip (lead, pointer, selection, tip, tipp-off, wrinkle), hinweis (allusion, clue, comment, consideration, evidence, indication, lead, piece of advice, pointer, reference, tip), andeutung (adumbration, allusion, insinuation, intimation, suggestion). (various references)

Greek 

νύξισ, νύξη (allusion, clue, cue, dig, inkling, innuendo), υπαινιγμόσ (allusion, implication, inkling, insinuation, intimation, suggestion), υπαινιγμός (allusion, innuendo), υπαινίσομαι (suggest), υπονοούμενα, υποδηλώνω (connote, indicate, intimate, suggest). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרמיז (allude), להצביע (indicate, point, signify), לרמוז (allude, become intimate, imply, lead, mention, record, sound out, suggest, tip the wink), רמיזה (allusion, beckon, cue, implication, mention), רמז (allusion, clue, cue, implication, indication, inkling, intimation, sign, tinge, tip, tip off, wink, winking). (various references)

Hungarian

utalás (allusion, commitment, cross-reference, indication, mention, reference), célzás (aim, aiming, allusion, cue, inkling, intimation, pointing). (various references)

Indonesian

saran (advice, suggestion), petunjuk (advice, direction, directive, directory, guidance, guideline, indication, instruction), mengangin-anginkan (aerate, air, expose to the air), isyarat (cue, forerunner, gesture, intimation). (various references)

Italian

alludere (allude, refer), suggerimento (pointer, prompt, prompting, suggestion, tip, wrinkle), cenno (allusion, Beck, gesture, mention, nod, note, notice, outline, sign, wave). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

示唆 (suggestion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヒント , しさ (parallax, suggestion), ふうゆ (allegory, insinuation), ほのめかし (intimation), いれぢえ (suggestion), いれちえ (suggestion), あんじ (suggestion). (various references)

Korean 

힌트. (various references)

Manx

sannish (allusion, suggestion, whisper), fou (hearsay, inference, inkling, report, rumour), faaue (allusion, suggestion, tip), cur faaue da (tip), cowrey (attribute, badge, beacon, brand, caret, character, check, denotation, emblem, evidence, feature, gesture, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace, wealth). (various references)

Norwegian

ymte, vink (lead), antydning, antyde (imply, infer, insinuate, intimate). (various references)

Pig Latin

inthay.(various references)

Portuguese

sugest�o (implication), sugestão (contrivance, flam, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, proposal, suggestion, whisper), sugerir (bespeak, come up with, imply, indicate, insinuate, inspire, intimate, prompt, propone, propose, smack, suggest), reportar‐se (allude), palpite (cue, divination, shot, tip), insinuar (glance, imply, innuendo, insinuate, instil, instill, intimate, suggest), insinua��o (implication), fazeralusãoa (allude), deixar entrever (adumbrate), dar a entender (imply, insinuate, intimate, purport), conselho (admonishment, admonition, advice, board, conclave, congregation, council, counsel, district, quakers' meeting, rede, tip, township), aviso (admonishment, admonition, advice, alarm, announcement, annunciation, aviso, beacon, buoy, caution, circular, communication, intimation, memento, monition, notice, notification, premonition, signal, sloop, threat, warning), alus�o, aludir veladamente a, aludir (allude, mention). (various references)

Romanian

sugestie (call, idea, intimation, leading, proposal, suggestion), sugera (implicate, imply, intimate, prompt, propose, suggest), ponos (blame, damage, defect, drawback, trouble), pãrere (belief, conceit, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, idea, judgement, mind, notion, opinion, paradox, say, thinking, verdict, view, voice), lãsa sã se înţeleagã (give a hint), insinuare (innuendo, insinuation, pointing, slur, sneer), idee (conceit, idea, image, imagination, mind, notion, plan, project, scheme, shade, stroke, thought, view), apropo (about, by the way, concerning, incidentally, on, that reminds me, upon), aluzie (allusion, gentle reminder, half word, inkling, pointing, reference, reminder, suggestion). (various references)

Russian 

намек (allusion, allusiveness, cue, gentle reminder, half word, half-word, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, overtone, pointing, ring, soupcon, suggestion, tip, tip off, tipoff). (various references)

Scottish

sanas (warning, whisper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nagovestiti (bespeak, betoken, forebode, harbinger, imply, indicate, intimate), nagoveštaj (announcement, half word, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, telltale), mig (forty winks, inkling, insinuation, nod, sign, wink), aluzija (allusion). (various references)

Spanish

indirecta (dig, innuendo, insinuation, shot). (various references)

Swedish

vink (Beck, cue, inkling, intimation, line, office, sign, tip, wave), tips (office, tip, tips), antydan (cue, glance, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, suggestion, touch, wisp). (various references)

Thai

เกริ่น, การพูดเป็นนัย, จำนวนเล็กน้อย (fraction, ounce, scintilla, smidgen, smidgin, tincture, tinge). (various references)

Turkish

hissettirmek (adumbrate, make feel, make understand, shadow forth, shadow out), tavsiye (a piece of advice, advice, commendation, counsel, exhortation, recommendation, recommendatory, Rede, suggestion, tip), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), ipucu (clew, clue, inkling, trace, wrinkle), ima (adumbration, allusion, finger post, glance at, implicitness, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, mention, office, pointer, reference, smell, suggestion, whiff, whisper), işaret (augury, badge, character, chop, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, earmark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, index, indication, indicator, landmark, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostic, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, touch, trace), fikir (advice, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, concept, conception, estimation, idea, ideo-, impression, inspiration, mind, notion, opinion, position, sentiments, suggestion, thinking, think-so, thought, verdict, view, voice), dokundurmak (adumbrate, gibe, jibe, make touch), dokundurma (adumbration, allusion, implicitness, innuendo, sarcasm, skit), üstü kapalı söz (innuendo, insinuation), üstü kapalı söylemek (allude, intimate), çıtlatmak (drop a hint, give a hint, give smb. to understand, indicate, insinuate, intimate, spring), çıtlatma (indication, intimation). (various references)

Ukrainian

натякати (allude, beat to drums, imply, insinuate, intimate, nudge), натяк (allusion, cue, intimation, office, shadow, smell, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tip, whisper), порада (advice, counsel, steer, suggestion). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tí ti (iota), lời nói bóng gió (insinuation), lời gợi ý, dấu vết (imprint, vestige). (various references)

Welsh

awgrymu (suggest), awgrym (beck, suggestion). (various references)

heliodori, heliodorum, odor, odore, odorem, odoremque, odores, odoribus, odoris, significationem, suggestionem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hint": hinted, hinter, hinterland, hinterlands, hinters, hinting, hints. (additional references)

Words containing "hint": chints, chintses, chintz, chintzes, chintzier, chintziest, chintzy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahint, ghant, Handt, hanf, hantu, hanty, havnt, Heinitz, helnt, henit, hentz, Hiant, hiat, hict, hiet, Hiett, hign, Hignet, hiln, hina, Hinc, hinch, hindt, hinet, hing, hinit, Hink, hinn, hino, hinot, hinty, hiny, hinz, hipt, hirt, hisn, hito, Hitt, hizt, hnet, honty, Hsinchu, Hundt, hunit, hunta, hunti, hunto, Hunty, hyn, hyng, hynt, hyst, ihnto, int, jint, niht, oint, zint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: thin.

-1 letter: hin, hit, nit, nth, tin.

-2 letters: hi, in, it, ti.

+1 letter: hints, night, ninth, thein, thine, thing, think, thins.

+2 letters: canthi, chints, chintz, chitin, chiton, ethion, ethnic, hating, hatpin, henbit, hinted, hinter, knight, nights, nighty, ninths, plinth, shanti, snitch, tahini, theine, theins, things, thinks, thinly, tonish, whiten, within, zenith.

+3 letters: absinth, acanthi, anthill, anthoid, bathing, benthic, bethink, chintzy, chitins, chitlin, chitons, chuting, cithern, cithren, etching, ethinyl, ethions, ethnics, fishnet, gahnite, gnathic, habitan, hafting, hairnet, halting, hanting, hasting, hatpins, hatting, heating, hefting, hematin, henbits, henting, hilting, hindgut, hinters, hinting, histing, histone, hitting, hoatzin, hooting, hornist, hornito, hosting, hotline, hotting, hunting, hurting, hutting, hymnist, ichnite, inearth, infight, inhabit, inherit, inhibit, insight, inthral, itching, jacinth, kitchen, kithing, knights, kything, lathing, lighten, manihot, neither, neolith, nighest, nightie, nightly, ninthly, nitchie, nothing, pithing, plinths, rethink, runtish, shaitan, shantih, shantis, sheitan, shuting, sithens, sthenia, sthenic, stonish, tahinis, tannish, tarnish, technic, thawing, theelin, theines, theming, therein, thiamin, thiazin, thicken, thinker, thinned, thinner, thionic, thionin, thionyl, tholing, thouing, thriven, thymine, tighten, tinhorn, tithing, tonight, tonnish, townish, tundish, tushing, tything, unfaith, unhitch, unshift, unsight, unthink, unwhite, whitens, whiting, withing, withins, writhen, xanthic, xanthin, zeniths, zithern.