Contact
Hint
Hint verb - To convey an idea indirectly.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good contact | good hint |
| better | better contact | better hint |
| brief | brief contact | brief hint |
| direct | direct contact | direct hint |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, large, little, main, early, useful, mere, slightest, further, last, occasional, visual, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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This was presumably a hint that Vlad had really been a vampire in the show's universe and contact with one of his artifacts had evoked that trait in Serpentor.
Source: Red Eyes, Take Warning -
This ending has the strongest hint that the True Companions stayed in contact with each other even after five years.
- The manga doesn't really hint at this at all; in fact, Trowa was shown to be emotionally stunted before he met the mercs, since he spent the first few years of his life without human contact.
Source: Fanon / Anime and Manga
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Hint and Contact. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contact/hint
Contact & Hint. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contact/hint>.
Hint or Contact. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contact/hint.
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