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Stinted vs Tinted - What's the difference?

stinted | tinted |

As adjectives the difference between stinted and tinted

is that stinted is (dated) constrained; restrained; confined while tinted is slightly colored, having tint.

As verbs the difference between stinted and tinted

is that stinted is (stint) while tinted is (tint).

stinted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
  • * c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
  • Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
  • * 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
  • Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
  • * 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
  • Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stint)
  • Anagrams

    * dentist

    tinted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Slightly colored, having tint.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}

    See also

    * (of glasses) colored, polarized, darkened

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tint)