cluenoun [ C ]
uk/kluː/us/kluː/B2 a sign or some information that helps you to find the answer to a problem, question, or mystery:
Police are still looking for clues in their search for the missing girl.
I'm never going to guess the answer if you don't give me a clue.
More examples
- The police found a vital clue to the girl's disappearance in a wooded area near her home.
- Forensic scientists are going over the victim's flat in a search for clues about the murderer.
- The police are collecting clues in order to piece together the details of the day she died.
- He pored over the letter searching for clues about the writer.
- The police tried to reconstruct the crime using the statements of witnesses and clues that they had found.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Solving and solutions
- answer
- antidote
- band-aid solution
- be at the bottom of sth idiom
- clear (sth) up
- conquer
- conquerable
- cure-all
- fall
- kill or cure idiom
- lateral thinking
- magic wand
- modus vivendi
- palliative
- panacea
- result
- round
- solution
- talk sth out
- workaround
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Idiom(s)
not have a clue/have no clue