gut feeling

An intuition or instinct, as opposed to an opinion based on a logical analysis. Jennifer's mother had a gut feeling that something was wrong when her daughter wasn't home by 10 o'clock.

gut feeling

and gut reaction; gut response

a personal, intuitive feeling or response. I have a gut feeling that something bad is going to happen. My gut reaction is that we should hire Susan for the job.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tanja	TAHN-yah (German, Finnish)	German, Finnish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Bunny	BUN-ee	English
Vilma	VEEL-mah (Finnish)	Spanish, Hungarian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Loreen	LAWR-een	English
Rolf	[rɔf]
Hans	HAHNS (German, Dutch)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish