inkling

inkling

noun

Definition of INKLING

a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation) <did not give the slightest inkling that he was planning to quit>

Synonyms clue, cue, indication, inkling, intimation, lead, suggestion

Related Words breath, flicker, glimmer, glimpse, mention, scent, whiff, wind; hunch, idea, inspiration, notion; allusion, implication, inference, innuendo, insinuation; denotation, evidence, guidepost, key, mark, overtone, pointer, sign, signal, telltale, token; assistance, nod, prompt, tip, tip-off, wink; feeling, foreboding, intuition, premonition, presentiment, suspicion; augury, foreshadower, foretaste, harbinger, omen, portent, prefigurement, presage, symptom

Near Antonyms answer, solution