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- Dictionaryinkling/ˈɪŋklɪŋ/
noun
- 1. a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint: "the records give us an inkling of how people saw the world"
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INKLING definition: 1. a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain: 2. a…. Learn more.
The meaning of INKLING is a slight knowledge or vague notion. How to use inkling in a sentence. Did you know?
Inkling definition: a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation. See examples of INKLING used in a sentence.
INKLING meaning: 1. a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain: 2. a…. Learn more.
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.
noun. /ˈɪŋklɪŋ/ [usually singular] a slight knowledge of something that is happening or about to happen synonym suspicion. inkling (of something) He had no inkling of what was going on. inkling (that…) The first inkling I had that something was wrong was when I found the front door wide open. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
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.
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]
Inkling definition: a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation. See examples of INKLING used in a sentence.
inkling definition: to think that something might be true or might happen: . Learn more.
