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Tintless vs Stintless - What's the difference?

tintless | stintless |

As adjectives the difference between tintless and stintless

is that tintless is having no tint; colourless while stintless is without stint or restraint.

tintless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no tint; colourless.
  • * 1849 , , Canada and the Canadians , Henry Colburn (1849), Chapter IX:
    • One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
  • * 1857 , , The Professor , Chapter X:
    • How, with the tintless pallor of her skin and the classic straightness of her lineaments, she managed to look sensual, I don't know.
  • * 1880 , , Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record , Truber & Co (1880), page 195:
    • It can be tinted to the taste of the purchaser; but, as a rule, a tintless crystal is preferred.

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    stintless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without stint or restraint.
    • The stintless tears of old Heraclitus. — Marston.
    (Webster 1913)