tincture

1. 1.

   fill, as with a certain quality

   “The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide”

   Synonymsimpregnateinfuseinstill

   Broaderfill
2. 2.

   stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color

   “The sky was tinctured red”

   Broadertint

Other forms of tincture

plural

tinctures·

past tense

tinctured·

present participle

tincturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tincture

What does tincture mean?

tincture means "a substance that colors or dyes". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tincture?

tincture has 2 syllables: tinc-ture. The stress falls on "tinc". In IPA it is /ˈtɪŋktʃɚ/.

What is another word for tincture?

Close synonyms include trace, vestige, shadow, shade, tint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tincture a common word?

tincture is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.