0 a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain: --
He must have had some inkling of what was happening.
[ + that ] I didn't have the slightest inkling that she was unhappy.
1 a slight idea that something is true or likely to happen, although it is not certain: --
He does not seem to have an inkling of the axiom that every single year must pay for itself and not for any other year.
We have got an inkling of the facts about production; we have no inkling as to the facts about distribution.
I had to read it five times to get any inkling of its meaning.
It is almost impossible to believe that the administration had no inkling of what was going on.
They have not given us the faintest inkling to-night of what their policy is to be.
I invite him to intervene to give us an inkling about that policy.
I have no doubt that our naval authorities have some inkling.
I had no inkling of just how true that is.
