Antonyms for hunch

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : huhnch

Phonetic Transcription : hʌntʃ

Definition of hunch

Origin : originally (c.1500) a verb, "to push, thrust," of unknown origin. Meaning "raise or bend into a hump" is 1670s. Perhaps a variant of bunch. The noun is attested from 1620s, originally "a push, thrust." Figurative sense of "hint, tip" (a "push" toward a solution or answer), first recorded 1849, led to that of "premonition, presentiment" (1904).

noun feeling, idea
verb cower, crouch

Example sentences :

Then she cut a hunch off a great loaf, and put it beside the bowl on the dresser.
Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth

There must be some kind of head-an'-tail to the scent, that a-way, to give the dog the hunch.
Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis

But again that unexplainable, senseless "hunch" restrained him.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various

I always had a hunch that I would never play wig and ruffles.
Extract from : « Blue-grass and Broadway » by Maria Thompson Daviess

I had a hunch, and this astronomer chap has proved it correct with his mathematics.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various

It's what we call a hunch—coincidence or anything like that.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

I should not wonder if there were a hunch of bread and cheese beside it, said Whiskerandos.
Extract from : « The Rambles of a Rat » by A. L. O. E.

I have a hunch that the Rovers are watching us like a cat watches mice.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island » by Edward Stratemeyer

My hunch is, though, that we're going to be nudists whether we want to or not.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

“There you are again,” broke in Dicky, cutting himself a hunch of cake.
Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed

Synonyms for hunch

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