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Synonyms for Funk
fʌŋkfunk
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Princeton's WordNet
funk, blue funknoun
a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
Funk, Casimir Funknoun
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
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blue funkfunkverb
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
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blue funkflinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, shrink, flinch, funk, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, cringe, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawn
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
funknoun
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[Low.] stink, stench, fetor, bad odor, offensive smellfunkverb
Synonyms:
[Low.] stink, emit a bad odor, emit a stenchfunkverb
Synonyms:
shrink back, be in fear, be frightened
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1204 | contract | |
#1249 | spring | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#3403 | bound | |
#5089 | kick | |
#8260 | funk | |
#9429 | rebound | |
#10952 | bounce | |
#13161 | shrink | |
#14216 | crawl | |
#18621 | creep | |
#22782 | quail | |
#25905 | backlash | |
#30821 | fawn | |
#31728 | recoil | |
#31924 | wince | |
#43010 | cringe | |
#47072 | ricochet | |
#49828 | wither | |
#52900 | backfire | |
#67091 | squint | |
#76457 | flinch | |
#102486 | cower | |
#113280 | reverberate | |
#116571 | grovel | |
#137114 | shrivel |
How to use Funk in a sentence?
There is no question that the fact that the President of Allie Funk is using this term to attack independent media gives an element of license to other politicians elsewhere, including some authoritarian leaders to dress up their own attacks on independent media and point to the example of the Allie Funk.
This was a weird, weird game for us, we started off slow, worked our way out of it and was up at the half. The third and fourth quarter was a little bit of a funk. I don’t even know what happened. The ball stuck a little bit.
I was in a funk for several months, i was depressed. I didn't know what to do. It was foggy and I didn't necessarily take action and focus on what I could control. I got overwhelmed with the things I couldn't control. ... I think that's normal, and I've learned a lot from it. I was slower to lead, I think, in that moment because I had to get myself right.
There are so many things overhanging the market right now, we've got an OPEC meeting, we've got Greece, we've got economic reports coming out, you name it, we're just stuck in this funk right now until we get some clarity as to where any of these issues are going to fall out.
Our sound is definitely different from anything I think we've all done before, we've all really kind of agreed upon funk, dance and kind of rock music and that's where we pull our biggest inspiration.
Translations for Funk
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- الفانكArabic
- FunkGerman
- canguelo, funkSpanish
- pakokauhu, masennus, funk, paniikkiFinnish
- funk, trouilleFrench
- funcIrish
- félelemHungarian
- fifa, funkuloItalian
- פַּחַדHebrew
- ファンクJapanese
- funkLatin
- funkDutch
- bojPolish
- funkPortuguese
- panicăRomanian
- трусить, фанк, испуг, трут, паника, зловоние, вонь, избегать, дрейфить, депрессия, искра, страхRussian
- funkSwedish
- 恐懼Chinese
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