Stinted vs Tinted - What's the difference?
stinted | tinted |
(dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
* c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
* 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
* 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
(stint)
Slightly colored, having tint.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (tint)
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)- 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.
- 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.
- Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* dentisttinted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}