0 a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain:
[ + that ] I didn't have the slightest inkling that she was unhappy.
He must have had some inkling of what was happening.
1 a slight idea that something is true or likely to happen, although it is not certain:
This might lead us to conclude that in another millennium there will be important concepts that we have no inkling of now.
It is the back cover, however, that contains the first inkling of her tale.
Some in the media seem to have some inkling of these inequalities, though they show little critical thought about the situation.
This is because in order to understand what these words mean, the child needs some inkling of the meanings of the common nouns that surround them.
However, when we began these experiments we had no inkling of the wide variation that exists in normal animals, so we did not adopt this approach.
It will be used and used again by generations of researchers, who probably will have no inkling of how much time, dedication and work was needed to compile it.
In any case; it is in the work of others who have no inkling of the true spirit of fugue and the true essence of counterpoint.
I had no inkling of just how true that is.