1. A slight indication or intimation: wanted to avoid any hint of scandal.
2. A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip: stock-trading hints.
3. A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue: give me a hint about the big news.
4. A barely perceptible amount: just a hint of color.
5. archaic an occasion; an opportunity.
6. to indicate or make known in an indirect manner.
7. to give a hint: wouldn't hint at the true purpose of the meeting. see synonyms at suggest.

1. A clue.
2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
4. 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.
5. an opportunity; occasion; fit time.
6. to suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
7. to develop and add hints to a font.

1. A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
2. to make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.
3. to bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.

1. to lay hold of; seize; snatch: a dialectal variant of hent.
2. to suggest in an indirect manner; indicate by allusion or implication; give a hint of.
3.
4. to make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion.
5.
6. behind.
7. an act of exertion; a snatch: as, in a hint, in a moment.
8. an opportunity; a fit time.
9. A suggestion made indirectly; a covert suggestion or implication; an indirect indication, conveyed by speech, gesture, action, or circumstance, whether intentional or unintentional.
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1. a slight indication
2. a slight but appreciable amount
3. a just detectable amount
4. an indication of potential opportunity
5. drop a hint; intimate by a hint
6. an indirect suggestion