Synonyms for funk
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1. funk, blue funknoun

   a state of nervous depression

   "he was in a funk"

   Synonyms:
   blue funk

2. 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)

   Synonyms:
   blue funk

3. funkverb

   an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

   Synonyms:
   blue funk

4. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

   draw back, as with fear or pain

   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

   Synonyms:
   rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, shrink, flinch, 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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1. • Biochemist
   • Depression
   • Move

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. funknoun

   Synonyms:
   [Low.] stink, stench, fetor, bad odor, offensive smell

2. funkverb

   Synonyms:
   [Low.] stink, emit a bad odor, emit a stench

3. funkverb

   Synonyms:
   shrink back, be in fear, be frightened

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1. funknoun

   Synonyms:
   recoiling, flinching, shirk, coward

2. funkverb

   Synonyms:
   stink, flinch, recoil, shrink back

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How to use funk in a sentence?

1. Jeffrey Clayton:

   They should stick to, Kellen Funk know, cases where typically we see problems with indigent parties getting ensnared in the system, and that’s those low-level misdemeanor cases.

2. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen:

   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.

3. Julius Randle:

   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.

4. Ben Le Brun:

   Oil is still in a bit of a funk, inventories ... (and) U.S. production numbers continue to disappoint the market.

5. Wally Funk:

   I got ahold of NASA four times, and said' I want to become an astronaut,' but nobody would take me, i didn't think I would ever get to go up. Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say,' Wally Funk, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said,' Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do Wally Funk if you want to do Wally Funk,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before.