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Meaning hint meaning

What does hint mean?
Definitions in simple English

hint Noun

— A hint is a clue to a question or a puzzle. I really need a hint to solve this question. It is too difficult for me.

hint Verb

— To suggest. He hinted that he wanted to marry another man. I will hint to Marilyn that her modeling talent is needed for the fashion show. Has he been hinting again that he wants to fire Josh and Ted?

hint

— verb drop a hint; intimate by a hint — noun a slight indication — noun (= breath) an indirect suggestion not a breath of scandal ever touched her — noun (= trace) a just detectable amount he speaks French with a trace of an accent — noun (= touch) a slight but appreciable amount this dish could use a touch of garlic — noun (= tip, lead) an indication of potential opportunity he got a tip on the stock market a good lead for a job

Synonyms hint synonyms

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hint English » English

suggestion suggest clue intimation imply insinuate intimate trace insinuation indication tip allusion inkling sign signal prompt indicate cue give a hint allude to allude touch lead implication tinge steer key innuendo gesture advice wind warn scent point omen confidential information breath allegory wink suspicion speck soupcon significance remind propound propose prophecy pinch overtone mite

Topics hint topics

What do people use hint to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive

Taste
States Quantity Plural

Few, little

Conjugation hint conjugation

How do you conjugate hint?

hint · verb

Examples hint examples

How do I use hint in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Could you at least give me a hint?
He gave me a hint.
Give me a hint.
Thanks for the hint.
A hint from you is enough.
At the first hint of trouble, Tom disappeared.
Is that a hint?
That was a broad hint.
Tom gave me a hint.
When I didn't know how to answer the question, Tom gave me a hint.
She took my hint and smiled.
I will try to say it guardedly, I will only politely hint at it.
His restlessness gave her a hint that something was wrong.
For the intelligent, a hint is sufficient.
I dropped her a broad hint, but she didn't catch on.
I'll give you a hint.
Can't you take a hint?
Was that a hint?
Would you give me a hint?

Movie subtitles

And with that stain over her head, not a hint of a job, either.
I can take a hint.
To go off on a trip for no one knows how long to some spot you don't even hint at the only woman on a ship with the toughest mugs I ever looked at. I mean the crew.
Don't hint.
Today, no one regrets more sincerely than I do that he finally feels himself compelled to take my hint.
No sign nor hint of Heathcliff.
Because the Entertainment Committee had dropped a gentle hint that, in view of the scandal, its presence would not be welcome.
Didn't she give you a hint of where she was going?
There's nothing here that would give them a hint, is there?
Just drop a hint that his wife might find out about this apartment and he'll shell out fast.
I'll give you a little hint.
You're trying to give me a hint.
Please, just give me a hint.
That's just a hint if you want to remember my birthday.
Last night I was bold enough to hint at a relationship between you and a certain lady.
To go off on a trip for no one knows how long to some spot you don't even hint at the only woman on a ship with the toughest mugs I ever looked at.
Here it is, with a hint of sourness, to feed me.
That book telling the history of the family had a hint in it.
Your dismissal this afternoon was a strong hint.
That might be a slight hint.
Just drop a hint that his wife might find out about this apartment. and he'll shell out fast.
It's funny you can't take a hint.
Is that what you hint?
Oh, I can take a hint, you don't have to knock me down with no club.
Anything that might give me some hint as to where I might find Jacqueline?
If I didn't know you so well. and know that nothing could be further from your mind. a fellow would almost swear you were giving him a hint.
How much of a hint would you need?
I'll give you a little hint. Sugar won't work.
I understand. All I need is a hint.
Ha ha! I can take a hint.
I should hint at things. Without stating them plainly, insinuate what can neither be proved or disproved.
I guess we can take a hint.
They even dare to hint of a relationship between Mrs. Girard and that hoodlum.
Can't that girl take a gentle hint?
Is there something to hint at?

News and current affairs

Only in mid-August did the Fed hint that interest rates might be cut.
This decline coincided with a rise in the surface temperature of the neighboring Indian Ocean, a hint that the decline in rainfall is in fact part of the longer-term process of man-made global warming.
Some have suggested that the effort suggests a hint of insecurity.
Since Argentina has been in crisis so often, investors always fear the worst and withdraw funds at the first hint of trouble, provoking an even deeper crisis.
Both Moscow and Washington hint at possible deep cuts in their offensive nuclear arsenals.
He appears to have been worried, like the manager of a Ponzi scheme, that any hint of doubt could cause the whole movement to crash.
But no one knows whether China's baby step is the start of something much bigger, as China's authorities hint one day and deny the next.
Beyond this powerful hint of local support for terrorists, there was an economic infrastructure.
President Putin's restoration of the old Soviet national anthem was the first recent hint that Russians are marching back to the future.
He has remained dour and almost silent, visibly chafing with impatience to come into his inheritance, but offering no hint of what difference he would make when he does.
Among most of Southeast Asia's ethnic Chinese, the presence of even a hint of allegiance to a secular distinction between faith and state in a Muslim leader is admired like a precious gem.
Last weekend's arrest of Serbia's Vice-Prime Minister Momcilo Perisic and a senior US diplomat on espionage charges is but a hint of this.
He even seemed to hint that the first accessions might possibly take place as early as January 1, 2003, which is at least a year earlier than most previous forecasts.
Indeed, by stifling any hint of democracy or political opposition in Iraq, Saddam's police state eliminated all risk of possible contagion of neighboring states.
None has reversed course, and any hint that governments might reassert political control over interest rates, as happened recently in India, are met with alarm in financial markets and outrage among economists.
But they remain neuralgic about any hint of outside interference, including even the suggestion that their nation's business might also be the business of other peoples, and vice versa.
Sources within the US administration hint that President Barack Obama might announce the outlines of an Arab-Israeli settlement sometime later this year.
This outcome stands in stark contrast to that of external private creditors, who have not seen a cent of what they are owed for more than one year and so far do not have even a hint about terms of repayment.
Israel's march of folly in expanding its West Bank settlements did not deserve a hint of soul searching on his part.
Any hint of compromise will expose officials politically.

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