Usually means: Slight suspicion or hint; intuition.
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  2. inkling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inkling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. inkling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. inkling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. inkling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inkling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inkling (Splatoon), Inkling (character), Inkling (disambiguation), Inkling, The Inkling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inkling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inkling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. inkling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  22. inkling: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. inkling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given., A vague idea about something.
▸ noun:  Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.
▸ noun:  (British, dialectal) A desire, an inclination.

Similar:
intimation, glimpse, insinuation, suspicion, implication, idea, sneaking suspicion, allusion, soupçon, suggestion, more...

Opposite:
hint, clue

Types:
suspicion, hint, clue, notion, idea, whisper, impression, thought, more...

Phrases:
have an inkling about, have an inkling, more...

Adjectives:
first, slightest, least, faintest, vaguest, real, smallest, remotest, dimmest, merest, sudden

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Similar:
intimation, glimpse, insinuation, suspicion, implication, idea, sneaking suspicion, allusion, soupçon, suggestion, more...

Opposite:
hint, clue

Types:
suspicion, hint, clue, notion, idea, whisper, impression, thought, more...

Phrases:
have an inkling about, have an inkling, more...

Adjectives:
first, slightest, least, faintest, vaguest, real, smallest, remotest, dimmest, merest, sudden

Colors:
    midnight blue,     indigo,     teal,     turquoise,     cyan, more...



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