Synonyms for hunch
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : huhnch |
| Phonetic Transcription : hʌntʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for hunch Other synonyms for the word hunch
- auguration
- augury
- bend
- boding
- bow
- clue
- curve
- draw in
- draw together
- expectation
- feeling in one's bones
- foreboding
- forecast
- foreknowledge
- forewarning
- forewisdom
- funny feeling
- glimmer
- hint
- hump
- impression
- lean
- misgiving
- notion
- omination
- portent
- preapprehension
- precognition
- preconceived notion
- prenotation
- prenotice
- presage
- presagement
- prescience
- presentiment
- qualm
- scrooch down
- suspicion
- tense
- thought
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for hunch
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