untinted

adj

untinted

adj

Etymology From un- + tinted.

1

Not tinted; having a plain or default colour.

  • The hideous exposure is not untinted with fairer lines; and we see traits here and there of true devotion, mistaken but heroic.1867, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects:
  • 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.1907, Meredith Nicholson, The Port of Missing Men:
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  • 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.1912, E. Temple Thurston, Sally Bishop:

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