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- DictionaryInk·ling/ˈiNGkliNG/
noun
- 1. a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint: "the records give us an inkling of how people saw the world"
noun. uk/ˈɪŋklɪŋ/us. have an inkling. Add to word listAdd to word list. to think that something might be true or might happen: She had absolutely no inkling that we were planning the party. (Definition of inkling from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
6 days ago · inkling in American English. (ˈɪŋklɪŋ) noun. 1. a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation. They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen. 2. a vague idea or notion; slight understanding. They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ink‧ling /ˈɪŋklɪŋ/ noun [ countable usually singular] a slight idea about something → suspicion I had an inkling that she was pregnant. inkling of She had absolutely no inkling of what was going on.
a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen. a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked.
Definitions of 'inkling' If you have an inkling of something, you have a vague idea about it. [...] More. Pronunciations of the word 'inkling' British English: ɪŋklɪŋ American English: ɪŋklɪŋ. More. Synonyms of 'inkling' • suspicion, idea, hint, suggestion [...] More. Collocations with 'inkling' Examples of 'inkling' in a sentence.
Britannica Dictionary definition of INKLING. [count] : a slight, uncertain idea about something : a slight amount of knowledge about something — usually singular. I didn't have an inkling [= clue] of what it all meant. Nothing gave me any inkling that it would happen.
a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen. a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked. 1505–15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + - ing1; akin to Old English inca suspicion.
