What is "hunch" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hunch mean in English? Meaning of hunch definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hunch" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hunch": an impression that something might be the case

Noun

  • Meaning: an impression that something might be the case
  • Example: he had an intuition that something had gone wrong
  • Synonyms: hunch intuition suspicion
  • Hyponyms: bosom heart
  • Hypernyms: belief feeling impression notion opinion
  • Meaning of "hunch": round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

    Verb

  • Meaning: round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  • Synonyms: hump hunch hunch forward hunch over
  • Hypernyms: change posture
  • Meaning of "hunch": the act of bending yourself into a humped position

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of bending yourself into a humped position
  • Synonyms: hunch
  • Hypernyms: bending
  • Synonyms:

    instinct, premonition, intuition, inkling, impression, foreboding, augury, portent, anticipation, hint, precognition, forecast, foreknowledge, suspicion, glimmer, presage, forewarning, qualm, expectation, misgiving, clue, presentiment, apprehension, thought, notion, funny feeling, preconceived notion, prescience, boding, auguration, forewisdom, omination, preapprehension, prenotation, prenotice, presagement, feeling in one's bones, stoop, huddle, squat, lean, hump, curve, bow, tense, bend, arch, draw in, draw together, scrooch down,

    Antonyms:

    knowledge, reality, reason, trust, proof, truth, straighten, stand,

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