tincture

Meaning

Verb

1. To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
2. Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
3. To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
4. To have a taint or tinge of some quality.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
2. Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
3. Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
4. Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
5. (obsolete) Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
6. (obsolete) Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
7. (obsolete) Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
8. (obsolete) Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
9. Scientific and alchemical senses.
10. Scientific and alchemical senses.
11. Scientific and alchemical senses.
12. Scientific and alchemical senses.
13. Scientific and alchemical senses.

Synonyms

dye

tint

color

tinge

hue

tone

colour

trace

pigment

stain

shade

paint

infusion

touch

pigmentation

undertone

vestige

shadow

complexion

scent

grain

chromaticity

impregnate

infuse

spot

cast

ghost

👻

imbue

instill

spin

mar

mark

morsel

note

nuance

odor

odour

perfuse

polishing

print

retouch

ring

💍

scintilla

shred

slant

slot

smattering

smell

👃

snip

soupcon

speck

spillway

spoor

sprinkling

suffuse

tinct

tonality

track

trail

undertow

wallop

color in

colorise

colourize

discolorise

discolorize

discolourise

air

admixture

chemical solution

atom

atomic

bit

blemish

carmine

clew

colorant

coloration

coloring

colorize

colourant

colouration

colour in

colouring

colourise

crayon

🖍️

dab

darn

dash

💨

discolor

dyestuff

dying

embroider

flavour

gradate

imprint

iota

jot

key

🔑

Hyphenated as

tinct‧ure

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə/

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of teinture and tinctura.
The verb is derived from the noun.