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Definition of "inkling" []

  • A slight hint or indication. (noun)
  • A slight understanding or vague idea or notion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "inkling" in a sentence
  • "It's hard to know where to start when your best inkling is to read some papers and try to find time with the overbooked senior graduate student."
  • ""If I do, the inkling is to want to pitch to him, but maybe there's a situation where we pitch around him," he said."
  • "She'll maybe have had some inkling from the Lord that her bairn was coming."