Definition for Inkling:

• A hint; intimation.

Synonyms for Inkling:

• n.

  •
  • trace,
  • glimpse,
  • wisp,
  • vestige,
  • a/the ghost of something.
  •
  • show,
  • suggest,
  • implication,
  • undertone.
  •anticipation (noun)
  • fore thought,
  • fore boding,
  • fore-thought,
  • in tuitions,
  • pre science,
  • pre-sciences,
  • pre-science,
  • fore-sights,
  • fore-seeings,
  • fore-cast,
  • fore seeing,
  • foreseeings,
  • fore cast,
  • fore taste,
  • prior knowledges,
  • pre sentiments,
  • fore-sight,
  • in-tuitions,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre-vision,
  • fore thoughts,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • fore-tastes,
  • in tuition,
  • pre monitions,
  • fore sights,
  • fore casts,
  • fore-bodings,
  • pre monition,
  • pre conceptions,
  • pre-visions,
  • fore seeings,
  • fore tastes,
  • pre conception,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • pre-monitions,
  • fore-seeing,
  • fore-thoughts,
  • fore-taste,
  • fore sight,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre sciences,
  • pre vision,
  • pre sentiment,
  • in-tuition,
  • pre-conception,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • pre visions,
  • fore-casts.
  •belief (noun)
  • understanding.
  •clue (noun)
  • hot leads.
  •conception (noun)
  • de sign,
  • ex-position,
  • ex-planations,
  • considerings,
  • meditatings,
  • de-sign,
  • re-presentations,
  • communings,
  • cogitatings,
  • speculatings,
  • de-liberating,
  • ex planations,
  • de signs,
  • envisagings,
  • fancyings,
  • deliberatings,
  • de liberating,
  • mental grasps,
  • re presentations,
  • ex-positions,
  • ex planation,
  • re presentation,
  • de-signs,
  • philosophizings,
  • concentratings.
  •cue (noun)
  • re minders,
  • re minder,
  • re-minders,
  • re-minder,
  • in wind.
  •hint (noun)
  • inference,
  • flea in ear,
  • glimmerings,
  • word to wise,
  • in formation,
  • adumbration.
  •hunch (noun)
  • feeling one's bone,
  • fore warnings,
  • feeling in bone,
  • prenotations,
  • feeling ones bone,
  • pre notations,
  • preapprehensions,
  • fore knowledge,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • forewisdoms,
  • augurations,
  • pre sage,
  • fore-warnings,
  • pre apprehensions,
  • pre notices,
  • ominations,
  • pre-sages,
  • fore-wisdoms,
  • fore-wisdom,
  • pre-notation,
  • pre apprehension,
  • fore knowledges,
  • pre-cognition,
  • feeling one bone,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre-notice,
  • pre notice,
  • pre sages,
  • fore wisdoms,
  • pre-apprehensions,
  • feeling in one's bone,
  • pre-apprehension,
  • pre cognitions,
  • feeling in ones bone,
  • pre-notations,
  • pre-notices,
  • mis-giving,
  • pre-cognitions,
  • presagements,
  • mis giving,
  • pre notation,
  • feeling bone,
  • fore-warning,
  • pre cognition,
  • bodings,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • feeling in one bone,
  • fore wisdom.
  •idea (noun)
  • reflection,
  • perception,
  • brainstorm,
  • concept,
  • observation,
  • supposition,
  • vision,
  • principle,
  • ideation,
  • theory,
  • inspiration,
  • thought,
  • design,
  • opinion,
  • image,
  • plan,
  • consideration.
  •idea, clue (noun)
  • glimmering,
  • whisper,
  • foggiest idea,
  • tipoff,
  • sneaking suspicion,
  • faintest idea,
  • lead,
  • innuendo.
  •impression (noun)
  • re collections,
  • re-collection,
  • re collection,
  • re-collections.
  •indication (noun)
  • signifier,
  • prefiguration,
  • earnests,
  • signifiers,
  • significants,
  • prefigurations,
  • Indicia.
  •notion (noun)
  • in-sight,
  • in sights,
  • in-sights.
  •seed (noun)
  • rudiment,
  • ovules,
  • sperms,
  • Corns,
  • corn,
  • semen,
  • sperm,
  • Spores,
  • ovule,
  • spore.
  •suggestion (noun)
  • auto-suggestions,
  • self suggestion,
  • over-tone,
  • symbologies,
  • self-suggestions,
  • over tones,
  • self suggestions,
  • selfsuggestions,
  • symbolizations,
  • over tone,
  • auto suggestion,
  • under tone,
  • under-tone,
  • under-tones,
  • auto suggestions,
  • over-tones,
  • under tones,
  • selfsuggestion.
  •supposition (noun)
  • conjecture,
  • hypothesis,
  • presumption,
  • speculation,
  • prophecy,
  • imagination,
  • guess,
  • fantasy.
  •tip-off (noun)
  • tip off.
  •tip/tipoff (noun)
  • pre-diction,
  • pre-dictions,
  • two cents' worths,
  • secret informations,
  • inside wires,
  • word advice,
  • pre dictions,
  • tipoffs,
  • word the wise.
  •touch (noun)
  • small amounts,
  • small amount.
  •understanding (noun)
  • under standings,
  • under-standing,
  • under standing,
  • under-standings.
  •wind (noun)
  • idle talk.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • whiff.
  •
  • undercurrent.
  •
  • tip.

Paraphrases for Inkling:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    idea.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    notion, indication, perception, suggestion.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hint, insight.

Antonyms for Inkling:

• n.

  • idea, clue
    information.
  • Other antonyms:
    answer, solution.

Inkling Sentence Examples:

• They got, however, some inkling of Wogan's need before the morrow came.

• Besides many of the children did certain things without being urged, this being evidently a part of a system, of which the sisters had as yet barely an inkling.