inkling

Speech parts

1. inkling - Noun

2. inkling - Verb

Meaning

A hint; an intimation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

intimation glimmer glimmering lead sense idea knowledge concept signal overtone sign understanding belief notion feeling

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Antonyms

being case fact evidence product base

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Hypernyms

suggestion

Phrases with the word

an inkling give an inkling giving an inkling

Anagrams

linking

Examples

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. Ayelet Waldman

And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad. Aldous Huxley

I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention. Jane Jacobs

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. William James

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite. Stefan Zweig

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Close letter words and terms

inklessness inklike inkline Inklings inkmaker inkmaking