Hint

Noun

 * 1) A clue.
 * I needed a hint to complete the crossword.
 * 1) A small, barely detectable amount of.
 * This entry requires a hint of irony.
 * 1) 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.  Also known as hinting.
 * This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter 'g' still need work.

Verb

 * 1) To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.
 * She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
 * 1) To develop and add hints to a font.
 * The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.

Adjectives for Hint
significant; practical; private; curious; advantageous; prompt; dark; rude; lavish; sundry (pi); ineffectual; equivocal; grotesque; doubtful; oblique; vague; suggestive; friendly; occult; elusive; unintelligible; insinuated; intimated.

Verbs for Hint
afford—; catch— comprehend—; contemplate—; convey— derive — from; heed— ignore—; infer— interpret—; perceive— proffer—; provide—; respond to—; seek— seize on—; suggest—; weigh—; —distresses; —implies; —indicates; —insinuates; — promises.

Adverbs for Hint
barely; delicately; obscurely; wickedly; privately; bashfully; significantly; curiously; vaguely; suggestively; unintelligibly.

Synonyms for Hint
allude, imply, insinuate, suggest, refer, suggest, intimate, give (inkling of), notify, tell, warn, apprise, inform, acquaint, mention, impart.

Antonyms for Hint
conceal, cover, veil, mask, refrain, disguise, camouflage, stifle, reserve, withhold, ignore, suppress.

Thesaurus
admonishment, admonition, adumbrate, adumbration, advert, advice, aide-memoire, alarm, allegorize, allegory, allude, allude to, allusion, angle, arcane meaning, argue, assistance, assume, assumption, augur, bare suggestion, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, beg, bespeak, betoken, bid fair, breath, bring to mind, broad hint, cast, catchword, caution, caveat, characterization, characterize, clue, coax, coloration, connotation, connote, cue, cue word, dash, denominate, denomination, denotation, denote, designation, deterrent example, differentiate, differentiation, direction, disclose, disclosure, display, divine, drop a hint, entail, evidence, example, express, expression, final notice, final warning, fingering, fish, flapper, foreshadow, foretoken, gentle hint, gesture, give a hint, give evidence, give prospect of, give the cue, give token, glance at, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, half an idea, hazy idea, help, highlight, hint at, hold out hope, hot lead, idea, identification, identify, implicate, implication, implied meaning, imply, import, importune, impression, index, indicate, indication, indicativeness, infer, inference, infusion, inkling, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, inspiration, intimate, intimation, involve, ironic suggestion, jogger, key, key word, kick, lead, lesson, lick, look, make fair promise, make likely, manifest, manifestation, mark, mean, mean to say, meaning, memorandum, mention, mere notion, metaphorical sense, monition, moral, naming, nod, note, notice, notification, notion, nuance, nudge, object lesson, occult meaning, overtone, particle, picking out, plead, point indirectly to, point to, pointer, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, prefigure, preindicate, presign, presignal, presignify, press, presume, presumption, presuppose, presupposition, pretypify, promise, prompt, prompter, prompting, raise expectation, refer, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, reveal, sauce, scent, scintilla, seasoning, seek, selection, shade, shadow, shadow forth, show, showing, sign, signal, signification, signify, sip, smack, smattering, smell, sneaking suspicion, solicit, soupcon, spark, specification, spell, spice, spoor, sprinkling, stand fair to, stand for, strain, streak, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggest, suggestion, sup, suppose, supposition, suspicion, symbolism, symptom, symptomaticness, symptomatize, symptomize, taint, take for granted, taste, telltale, tempering, testify, thought, threat, tickler, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip, tip off, tip-off, token, touch, trace, track, trifle, twang, typify, ultimatum, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, vague idea, vein, verbum sapienti, vestige, warning, warning piece, whiff, whisper, wind, wink

Etymology
From obsolete hent, from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *khantijanan.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: leid


 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Japanese: ヒント
 * Russian: подсказка, намёк

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 暗指
 * Finnish:, vihjaista
 * French: faire allusion


 * Japanese:
 * Russian: намекать, намекнуть
 * Spanish: dar un indicio

Anagrams

 * thin

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) hint

Verb

 * 1) to scatter, sprinkle
 * A cukrász porcukrot hint a süteményre. - The confectioner sprinkles powedered sugar on the cookie.

Synonyms

 * szór