HUNCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hunched mean? 

• HUNCHED (adjective)
  The adjective HUNCHED has 1 sense:

1. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

  Familiarity information: HUNCHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

Synonyms:

crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping

Context example:

a little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

Summerlee was on guard, sitting hunched over our small fire, a quaint, angular figure, his rifle across his knees and his pointed, goat-like beard wagging with each weary nod of his head.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)