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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra

Meaning of "hunch" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HUNCH

Of unknown origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HUNCH

hunch  [hʌntʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUNCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hunch is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hunch in English.

WHAT DOES HUNCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hunch in the English dictionary

The first definition of hunch in the dictionary is an intuitive guess or feeling. Other definition of hunch is a lump or large piece. Hunch is also to bend or draw up or together.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HUNCH

PRESENT

Present
I hunch
you hunch
he/she/it hunches
we hunch
you hunch
they hunch
Present continuous
I am hunching
you are hunching
he/she/it is hunching
we are hunching
you are hunching
they are hunching
Present perfect
I have hunched
you have hunched
he/she/it has hunched
we have hunched
you have hunched
they have hunched
Present perfect continuous
I have been hunching
you have been hunching
he/she/it has been hunching
we have been hunching
you have been hunching
they have been hunching
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I hunched
you hunched
he/she/it hunched
we hunched
you hunched
they hunched
Past continuous
I was hunching
you were hunching
he/she/it was hunching
we were hunching
you were hunching
they were hunching
Past perfect
I had hunched
you had hunched
he/she/it had hunched
we had hunched
you had hunched
they had hunched
Past perfect continuous
I had been hunching
you had been hunching
he/she/it had been hunching
we had been hunching
you had been hunching
they had been hunching
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hunch
you will hunch
he/she/it will hunch
we will hunch
you will hunch
they will hunch
Future continuous
I will be hunching
you will be hunching
he/she/it will be hunching
we will be hunching
you will be hunching
they will be hunching
Future perfect
I will have hunched
you will have hunched
he/she/it will have hunched
we will have hunched
you will have hunched
they will have hunched
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hunching
you will have been hunching
he/she/it will have been hunching
we will have been hunching
you will have been hunching
they will have been hunching
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hunch
you would hunch
he/she/it would hunch
we would hunch
you would hunch
they would hunch
Conditional continuous
I would be hunching
you would be hunching
he/she/it would be hunching
we would be hunching
you would be hunching
they would be hunching
Conditional perfect
I would have hunch
you would have hunch
he/she/it would have hunch
we would have hunch
you would have hunch
they would have hunch
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hunching
you would have been hunching
he/she/it would have been hunching
we would have been hunching
you would have been hunching
they would have been hunching
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hunch
we let´s hunch
you hunch
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hunch
Past participle
hunched
Present Participle
hunching
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUNCH


after-lunch
ˈɑːftəˌlʌntʃ
brunch
brʌntʃ
bunch
bʌntʃ
Bunche
bʌntʃ
clunch
klʌntʃ
counterpunch
ˈkaʊntəˌpʌntʃ
crunch
krʌntʃ
dunch
dʌntʃ
honeybunch
ˈhʌnɪˌbʌntʃ
key-punch
kiː pʌntʃ
lunch
lʌntʃ
munch
mʌntʃ
punch
pʌntʃ
runch
rʌntʃ
sarpanch
səˈpʌntʃ
scrunch
skrʌntʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUNCH

hunchback
hunchbacked
hunched
hundred
hundred days
Hundred Years´ War
hundred-percenter
hundred-percentism
hundred-year-old
hundreder
hundredfold
hundreds
hundreds and thousands
hundredth
hundredweight
hung
Hung Hsiu-ch´uan
hung jury
hung over

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUNCH

box lunch
buffet lunch
business lunch
credit crunch
haunch
launch
packed lunch
paunch
picnic lunch
power lunch
prelaunch
press launch
pub lunch
relaunch
school lunch
soft launch
soft-launch
staunch
sucker punch
the crunch

Synonyms and antonyms of hunch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HUNCH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hunch» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hunch

Translation of «hunch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUNCH

Find out the translation of hunch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hunch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hunch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

直觉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

presentimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

hunch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कूबड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حدس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

догадка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pressentimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intuition
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Firasat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gefühl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

予感
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

예감
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hunch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வளைவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

önsezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

presentimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przeczucie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

здогадка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bănuială
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καμπούρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vermoede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

puckel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pukkel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hunch

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNCH»

The term «hunch» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.318 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNCH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hunch» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hunch» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hunch

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10 QUOTES WITH «HUNCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hunch.
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Martha Beck
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
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Frank Capra
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
3
James Dickey
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
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Sophie Hannah
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
5
Sadie Jones
In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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Al Madrigal
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
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Al Madrigal
There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
8
Paul Mellon
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
9
Evgeny Morozov
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.
10
Joan Smalls
I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNCH»

Discover the use of hunch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hunch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Have You Ever Had a Hunch?: The Importance of Creative Thinking
Have You Ever Had A Hunch? is a powerful tool for self-growth and an invaluable gift for anyone wanting to explore their own creativity.
Ellen Palestrant, 2005
2
Hunch 10: Mediators
hunch 10 presents Mediators, an edition that addresses the workings of 'mediation' on and through the disciplines of architecture and urbanism.
Penelope Dean, 2006
3
Once Upon a Hunch: Success Begins When One Follows a Hunch ...
Success Begins When One Follows a Hunch Based on Love Barbara Brady. Success begins When one follows A Novel a hunch based on love ()NCE UPGN A HUN CH You cannot always have sunshine, but you can always give a bit of ...
Barbara Brady, 2006
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Hunch
Embryonic. Condition. For seven years the Berlage Institute has functioned as a laboratory for young architects to do research in a vulnerable condition. Starting in the restored Orphanage by Aldo van Eyck, then moving into an anonymous ...
Jennifer Sigler, 2002
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More Than a Hunch
Nita Franklin's dreams have gone from sensual to wildly erotic.
Kate Douglas, 2002
6
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
The title of "Seattle Hunch" puts that composition in the running to make the list of West Coast compositions, but the connection goes a bit deeper than that. James Dapogny has identified the piece as one of a cluster of three compositions with ...
Phil Pastras, 2001
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How to Live on a Hunch Or the Art of Psychic Living
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Dorothy Rice Sims, 2013
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The Metaphysics of Self and World: Toward a Humanistic ...
When a knowledgeable and experienced mechanic, for example, has trouble starting a car and has a hunch that the trouble lies in the distributor, the fact that this thought occurs to the mechanic is evidence that it is the distributor, whereas ...
Elie Maynard Adams, 1991
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.
Malcolm Gladwell, 2007
10
Foundations in Social Neuroscience
John T. Cacioppo. Deciding Advantageously before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel, and Antonio R. Damasio Pre- Pre- Hunch punishment hunch Pre- Pre- punishment hunch Figure  ...
John T. Cacioppo, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUNCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hunch is used in the context of the following news items.
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Izabella St. James Disses Holly Madison — She's A 'Weirdo …
So if Holly was so obsessed with Hef, why hurl such accusations against him now? Izabella has a hunch that Holly, for one, felt a deep rejection ... «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
2
Tackle Your Office in Style - Parade
Turnstone designers started creating more updated products the support our newer postures (iPad hunch, anyone?). While most of these ... «Parade, Jul 15»
3
Lawsuit aims to trash Seattle law requiring garbage-snooping …
If their subjective hunch goes against you, you get a fine and/or a brightly colored 'shame tag' to embarrass you in front of the public. «Washington Times, Jul 15»
4
The discovery of “buckyballs” in space solves a 100-year-old …
The discovery, published in Nature, doesn't just confirm the hunch scientists have had that buckyballs may be ubiquitous in space—it also ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
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City Hall and Uber Clash in Struggle Over New York Streets - The …
The city's hunch, officials said, is that the total number of vehicle miles traveled has risen because for-hire vehicles have acted as “supercars,” ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
The five most memorable Mets games of the first half - Amazin' Avenue
However, Terry Collins played a hunch and put Nieuwenhuis in the number-five spot in the lineup. The outfielder made his manager look like a ... «Amazin' Avenue, Jul 15»
7
Balsamic, cyder, sherry - there's a vinegar to suit every dish - and it's …
... and down the country with balsamic vinegar (thanks largely to the Delia effect in the Nineties), I had a hunch that there must be much more to ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
8
Thinking About Taking Out a Mortgage? Don't Obsess Over the Fed …
In effect, if you try to time your mortgage decision based on a hunch about the future direction of rates, you are betting that you have outsmarted ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Financial singularity: is it a mirage? | Business | The Guardian
News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. That looks a lot more like reality than all the talk of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
What Your Favourite Muppet Character Says About You
You walk with a hunch, and every word coming out of your mouth is sarcastic. That's how you survived growing up in the mean sewers of New ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»

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