- hunch
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n., informal, intimation, sense, feeling; inkling, notion, supposition, hint, intuition, guess.II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Hump]2. [*Intuition]Syn. idea, notion, feeling, premonition, presage, forecast, presentiment, instinct, expectation, anticipation, foreknowledge, preconceived notion, forewisdom, omination, precognition, preapprehension, prescience, forewarning, clue, presagement, foreboding, boding, prenotice, prenotation, augury, auguration, hint, portent, apprehension, misgiving, qualm, suspicion, inkling, glimmer; see also thought 2 .v.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)In.feeling, suspicion, guess, idea, premonition, inkling, intuition, notion, foreboding, impression.IIv.hump, bend, bow, huddle, crouch.IV(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. Intuitive cognition: feeling, idea, impression, intuition, suspicion. See THOUGHTS. 2. An irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size: chunk, clod, clump, gob1, lump1, nugget, wad. Informal: hunk. See PART. II verb 1. To stoop low with the limbs pulled in close to the body: crouch, huddle, hunker (down), squat. See HIGH. 2. To incline the body: arch, bend, bow1, hump, scrunch, stoop. See POSTURE.
English dictionary for students. 2013.