hunch

hunch is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hump; a protuberance. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hump; a protuberance.
2. noun. A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
3. noun. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
4. transitive verb. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
5. transitive verb. To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
6. noun. the act of bending yourself into a humped position
7. noun. an impression that something might be the case

   "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

   Synonyms: intuition, suspicion

8. verb. round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

   Synonyms: hump

Synonyms

intuition, suspicion, hump

Common word forms

hunched, hunches, hunching

Words from these letters

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