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| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling*, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cower, crouch |
| Synonyms: | arch, bend, bow, curve, huddle, hump, lean, squat, stoop, tense, draw in, draw together, scrooch down |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, bow, bridge, extend, form, hook, hump, hunch, round, shape, span, stretch, camber |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speculation, assumption |
| Synonyms: | conclusion, fancy, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, notion, opinion, perhaps, presumption, shot in the dark*, supposition, surmise, theory, guesstimate, guesswork, sneaking suspicion, stab in the dark, theorizing |
| Antonyms: | fact, proof, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crouch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stoop low; cringe |
| Synonyms: | bend, bow, cower, dip, duck, grovel, huddle, hunch, hunker down, kneel, quail, squat, stoop, wince, bend down, quat, scrooch down |
| Antonyms: | stretch |
| Main Entry: | guess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, speculation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, ballpark figure*, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, divination, estimate, fancy, feeling, hunch*, hypothesis, induction, inference, judgment, notion, opinion, postulate, prediction, presumption, reckoning, shot*, shot in the dark*, stab*, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view, guesstimate, guesswork, postulation, presupposition, sneaking suspicion, supposal, surmisal |
| Antonyms: | calculation, measurement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swelling, projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, dune, elevation, eminence, excrescence, hill, hunch, knob, mound, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, swell, convexedness, convexity, gibbosity, hummock, knap, knurl, kyphosis, tumescence |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | inkling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, clue |
| Synonyms: | conception, cue, hint, hunch*, impression, indication, innuendo, intimation, lead, notion, suggestion, suspicion, tip, whisper, faintest idea, foggiest idea, glimmering, hot lead, sneaking suspicion, tipoff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | animus, approach, awakening, brainstorm*, creativity, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash*, genius, hunch*, illumination, impulse, incentive, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, revelation, rumble, spark, spur, stimulation, thought, vision, whim, afflatus, arousal, brainchild, deep think, inflatus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | instinct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gut feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, faculty, feeling, funny feeling*, gift, gut reaction*, hunch, impulse, inclination, intuition, knack, know-how*, nose*, predisposition, proclivity, savvy*, sense, sentiment, sixth sense*, talent, tendency, urge |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction*, hunch*, inspiration, instinct, nose*, penetration, perception, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, innate knowledge, intuitiveness, perceptivity |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason, reasoning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | investment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given, lent for a return |
| Synonyms: | advance, ante, asset, backing, bail, contribution, endowment, expenditure, expense, finance, financing, flutter, grant, hunch, inside, loan, money, piece, plunge, property, purchase, speculation, stab*, stake, transaction, venture, interests, investing, smart money, spec, vested interests |
| Antonyms: | divestment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration made in advance |
| Synonyms: | augury, cast, conjecture, divination, dope, forecast, foresight, guess, horoscope, hunch*, indicator, omen, presage, prognosis, prophecy, tip, crystal gazing, forecasting, foretelling, fortune-telling, of event anticipation, palmistry, prevision, prognostication, soothsaying, surmising, vaticination, zodiac |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, feeling, foreboding, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, presentiment, sign, suspicion, warning, apprehensiveness, feeling in bones, forewarning, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, vibrations, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling*, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, presage, apprehensiveness, discomposure, feeling in bones, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sixth sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extrasensory perception |
| Synonyms: | ESP, ESP*, clairvoyance, divination, extrasensory perception, feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreknowledge, foresight, gut feeling, gut feeling, hunch, insight, instinct, intuition, intuitiveness, keen intuition, perception, premonition, second sight, second sight*, telepathy, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decline, sink |
| Synonyms: | bend, blight, collapse, crash, decay, deteriorate, droop, drop, fall, fall off*, go down, hunch, keel over, loll, pitch, plummet, plunge, sag, slide, slip, slouch, topple, tumble, cave in, go downhill, go to ruin, reach new low |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | squat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower body by bending knees |
| Synonyms: | bow, cower, crouch, hunch, hunker down, perch, roost, settle, sit, stoop |
| Antonyms: | straighten, stretch |
| Main Entry: | supposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guess, belief |
| Synonyms: | assumption, condition, conjecture, doubt, guessing, hunch, hypothesis, idea, likelihood, notion, opinion, postulate, premise, presumption, shot in the dark*, speculation, suppose, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view, apriorism, guesstimate, guesswork, posit, postulation, presupposition, rough guess, sneaking suspicion, stab in the dark |
| Antonyms: | fact, knowledge, proof, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surmise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guess, conclusion |
| Synonyms: | assumption, attempt, conjecture, deduction, hunch, hypothesis, idea, inference, notion, opinion, possibility, presumption, speculation, supposition, suspicion, theory, thought, guesstimate, guesswork, sneaking suspicion |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | calculation, knowledge, measurement |
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