inkling
inkling
Definition
ink·ling (iŋk′liŋ)
noun
- an indirect suggestion; slight indication; hint
- a vague idea or notion; suspicion
Etymology: ME ingkiling < inclen, to give an inkling of
inkling
Synonyms
inkling
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- development: This is the first inkling of the development of the concept of the person and personality in the history of Western thought.
- rationale: While the rationale for its actions may be real, we must be aware that the hare itself has no inkling of that rationale.
- truth: This inkling of truth is a good thing to know.
- opening: It was the first surreal inkling of an opening between the invisible worlds.
- situation: I wonder how many have even an inkling of the situation as it appears to stand.
- fact: Menshevism, itself a branch of bourgeois thought, does not have and cannot have any inkling of these facts.
Preposition: that
- something: By now we had our first inkling that something might be amiss.
Converse of object
- have: We have an inkling of what Marx was on about.
- get: I've got a slight inkling for Man Utd.
- give: The Internet gives some inkling of what the media of the future will be like.
- show: She had no idea that Klimps could write, and he had never shown any inkling of possessing a conscience.
- call: He formed a writers ' group called the Inklings, which included Tolkien and his own brother Warren.
- provide: Charles Martin Smith provides a slight inkling of comic relief as accountant turned Untouchable Oscar Wallace.
Adjective modifier
- slight: I've got a slight inkling for Man Utd.
- first: The CE informed her that the first inkling had come about only in August.
- little: Most of his contacts had little inkling that anything was wrong.
- vague: You may by now be getting a vague inkling that I liked The Moon & Sixpence.
- faint: I sometimes wonder whether these bureaucratic quango types have even the faintest inkling what a " market " actually is.
- surreal: It was the first surreal inkling of an opening between the invisible worlds.
