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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"
1. : a slight knowledge or vague notion. had not the faintest inkling of what it was all about H. W. Carter. 2. : a slight indication or suggestion : hint, clue. there was no path—no inkling even of a track New Yorker. Did you know?
Inkling definition: a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation. See examples of INKLING used in a sentence.
INKLING definition: 1. a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain: 2. a…. Learn more.
inkling. Is someone yapping on and on and you only have the vaguest idea of what they're talking about? Then you understood just an inkling — a glimmer, a fraction — of what they were saying.
INKLING meaning: 1. a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain: 2. a…. Learn more.
Definition of inkling noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation. They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen. 2.
n. 1. a slight suggestion; hint; intimation: They gave us no inkling of what was going to happen. 2. a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: I don't have an inkling of how it works. [1505–15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + -ing 1]
Synonyms for INKLING: indication, clue, hint, cue, suggestion, idea, sign, intimation; Antonyms of INKLING: solution, answer.
From Middle English, from inklen, inclen (“to give an inkling of, hint at, mention, utter in an undertone”), from inke (“apprehension, misgiving”), from Old English inca (“doubt, suspicion”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *yenǵ-(“illness”).
