hint
An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
Example
“He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.”
Other meanings
A small, barely detectable amount.
“There was a hint of irony in his voice.”
Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
“This font does not scale well to small sizes; the hints for the 10-point letter 'g' still need work.”
Synonyms
- breath
Related words
- broad hint
- drop a hint
- get the hint
- Irish hint
- take a hint
- take the hint
- type hint
- hintline
Word history
From Old English "hentan" (to seize, grasp).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “hint” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.