INKLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inkling mean? 

• INKLING (noun)
  The noun INKLING has 1 sense:

1. a slight suggestion or vague understanding

  Familiarity information: INKLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INKLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight suggestion or vague understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

glimmer; glimmering; inkling; intimation

Context example:

he had no inkling what was about to happen

Hypernyms ("inkling" is a kind of...):

suggestion (an idea that is suggested)

 Context examples 

As for me, I began to have an inkling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Nothing repeats exactly in life (other planets will have radically changed position), but if you can recall something, you might have an inkling of what could come up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

With Eduardo Lucas lies the solution of our problem, though I must admit that I have not an inkling as to what form it may take.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had no inkling of such a patience.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Dear mama, there, as soon as she got an inkling of the business, found out that it was of an immoral tendency.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You may have received an inkling of how well your career is going last month, for we had a solar eclipse in Capricorn at four degrees on December 25 that was as sweet as sugar.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)