Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hint
Participle: hinted
Gerund: hinting
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | hint |
| you | hint |
| he;she;it | hints |
| we | hint |
| you | hint |
| they | hint |
Perfect
| I | have hinted |
| you | have hinted |
| he;she;it | has hinted |
| we | have hinted |
| you | have hinted |
| they | have hinted |
Past
| I | hinted |
| you | hinted |
| he;she;it | hinted |
| we | hinted |
| you | hinted |
| they | hinted |
Pluperfect
| I | had hinted |
| you | had hinted |
| he;she;it | had hinted |
| we | had hinted |
| you | had hinted |
| they | had hinted |
Future
| I | will hint |
| you | will hint |
| he;she;it | will hint |
| we | will hint |
| you | will hint |
| they | will hint |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hinted |
| you | will have hinted |
| he;she;it | will have hinted |
| we | will have hinted |
| you | will have hinted |
| they | will have hinted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hint |
| you | hint |
| he;she;it | hint |
| we | hint |
| you | hint |
| they | hint |
Perfect
| I | have hinted |
| you | have hinted |
| he;she;it | have hinted |
| we | have hinted |
| you | have hinted |
| they | have hinted |
Imperfect
| I | hinted |
| you | hinted |
| he;she;it | hinted |
| we | hinted |
| you | hinted |
| they | hinted |
Pluperfect
| I | had hinted |
| you | had hinted |
| he;she;it | had hinted |
| we | had hinted |
| you | had hinted |
| they | had hinted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hint |
| you | would hint |
| he;she;it | would hint |
| we | would hint |
| you | would hint |
| they | would hint |
Perfect
| I | would have hinted |
| you | would have hinted |
| he;she;it | would have hinted |
| we | would have hinted |
| you | would have hinted |
| they | would have hinted |
Imperative
| you | hint |
| we | Let's hint |
| you | hint |
Verbs conjugated like 'hint'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hint'
dint,
haint,
hent,
hilt,
hist,
hit,
hunt,
lint,
mint,
oint,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- indirect suggestion
- advert, allude, imply, indicate, inkle, insinuate, intimate, refer, signify, suggest
- imply
- insinuate, infer, suggest, intimate, mention, prompt, foreshadow, apprise
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1604, from obsolete
hent, from O.E.
hentan "to seize," from P.Gmc.
*khantijanan (cf. Goth.
hinþan "to seize"), related to
hunt. Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
2. From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt. See: Old English '
hentan', Proto-Germanic '
*hantijaną'.
Verbs referencing "hint"
Dutch
hinten.
Sample Sentences
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[...] hands; while on either side, extending down its whole dreary length, was a long, long table, over each of which a rack, fixed to the low roof, and stuck full of drinking-glasses and cruet-stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy weather. I had not at that time seen the ideal presentment of this chamber which has since gratified me so much, but I observed that one of our friends who had [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ? A fire. And what that deep red light in the opposite direction? Another fire. And what these charred and blackened walls we stand before ? A dwelling where a fire has been. It was more than hinted, in an official report, not long ago, that some of these conflagrations were not wholly accidental, and that speculation and enterprise found a field of exertion, even in flames: but be this as it [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] country round; but jostling its handsome residences, like slavery itself going hand in hand with many lofty virtues, are deplorable tenements, fences unrepaired, walls crumbling into ruinous heaps. Hinting gloomily at things below the surface, these, and many other tokens of the same description, force themselves upon the notice, and are remembered with depressing influence, when livelier features are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] he dwells in (unless he is going away from it ), and I shall therefore, I have no doubt, be at issue with the inhabitants of St. Louis, in questioning the perfect salubrity of its climate, and in hinting that I think it must rather dispose to fever, in the summer and autumnal seasons. Just adding, that it is very hot, lies among great rivers, and has vast tracts of undrained swampy land around it, [...]
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[...] variable as this class of passengers, whom you will see, when the ship is going nobly through the water, quite pale with admiration, swearing that the captain beats all captains ever known, and even hinting at subscriptions for a piece of plate; and who, next morning, when the breeze has lulled, and all the sails hang useless in the idle air, shake their despondent heads again, and say, with screwed-up [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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On one theme, which is commonly before our eyes, and in respect of which our national character is changing fast, let the plain Truth be spoken, and let us not, like dastards, beat about the bush by hinting at the Spaniard and the fierce Italian. When knives are drawn by Englishmen in conflict let it be said and known: ‘We owe this change to Republican Slavery. These are the weapons of Freedom. With [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] I seek to place in you ) is, on my return to England, in my own person, in my own journal, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, such testimony to the gigantic changes in this country as I have hinted at to-night. Also, to record that wherever I have been, in the smallest places equally with the largest, I have been received with unsurpassable politeness, delicacy, sweet temper, hospitality, [...]
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