untinted

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ tinted.

Adjective[edit]

untinted (not comparable)

  1. Not tinted; having a plain or default colour.
    • 1867, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects[1]:
      The hideous exposure is not untinted with fairer lines; and we see traits here and there of true devotion, mistaken but heroic.
    • 1907, Meredith Nicholson, The Port of Missing Men[2]:
      A large map of Virginia and a series of hunting prints hung on the untinted walls, and there were racks for guns, and a work-bench at one end of the room, where guns might be taken apart and cleaned.
    • 1912, E. Temple Thurston, Sally Bishop[3]:
      Why can't you look at life through a plain sheet of glass--if you must look at it through something--instead of choosing the red and the yellow and the purples--anything but the plain, the untinted reality.