Word Finder - inkling

definition

Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given.

synonyms

• intimation

definition

Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.

definition

A desire, an inclination.

She was beginning to get an inkling why the job was still open.

Alex didn't look at Carmen, which was her first inkling that something was amiss.

I've got a slight inkling for Man Utd.

Most of his contacts had little inkling that anything was wrong.

Something flickered in his gaze, and she guessed he had an inkling of what awaited him.

We have an inkling of what Marx was on about.

The Internet gives some inkling of what the media of the future will be like.

It shows me you have some inkling of the importance of this gift you possess and the dire consequences of it falling into the wrong hands.

Throughout, Bilbo discovers what he's made of, and it's sterner stuff than what he had previously any inkling.

I'm not sure what Annie is saying, but I'm beginning to get an inkling.

You may by now be getting a vague inkling that I liked The Moon & Sixpence.

It was the first surreal inkling of an opening between the invisible worlds.

The CE informed her that the first inkling had come about only in August.

I sometimes wonder whether these bureaucratic quango types have even the faintest inkling what a " market " actually is.

The key to the mysteries of Egyptian history had indeed been found, thanks to the recent efforts of Thomas Young and Champollion, but the deciphering of inscriptions had not yet progressed far enough to give more than a vague inkling of what was to follow.

The only inkling of possible underlying principles in this orderly process is that there appears to be in respect to certain characters a potentiality or a predisposition through hereditary kinship to evolve in certain definite directions.

Charles Martin Smith provides a slight inkling of comic relief as accountant turned Untouchable Oscar Wallace.

If you're inkling to make a public testament of your rebelliousness, it would follow that your attire must be as shockingly against the norm as possible.

Since the Cullen family is the "vegetarian" version of vampires, the love story appears to have an inkling of hope.

She had no idea that Klimps could write, and he had never shown any inkling of possessing a conscience.

Although Cairoli, upon learning of the Anglo-Ottoman convention in regard to Cyprus, had advised Count Corti of the possibility that Great Britain might seek to placate France by conniving at a French occupation of Tunisia, neither he nor Count Corti had any inkling of the verbal arrangement made between.

Passwords should never be your birth date, anniversary, form of your name, etc., Make it hard to figure out, and if you have the slightest inkling someone has tapped into it, change it.

But long before Jacobs had the inkling to make a bra, Jean Julian Josselin had been closing up the 19th by improving the corset in many uncomfortable ways.