hunch

hunch · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    An intuitive feeling or guess about something.

  2. 2.

    A humped position or the act of hunching.

Forms

plural: hunches

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    have a hunch — To have an intuitive feeling about something
  • •
    play a hunch — To act on intuition rather than evidence
  • •
    on a hunch — Based on intuition

Related words

Antonyms: certainty, knowledge
See also: feeling, guess, intuition, suspicion
Synonyms: feeling, intuition, premonition, suspicion

Etymology

Origin uncertain; possibly related to hump. The intuition sense emerged in the early 20th century American English.