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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"
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blue funkFunk, 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, 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
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[Low.] stink, emit a bad odor, emit a stenchfunkverb
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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?
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.
Chipotle has this fierce, fierce sense of independence to them, you're going to hear some some fantastic Ethiopian funk up against a blues tune, up against a Reggae joint. It's really a great mixture.
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.
I had access to all musicians and artists, from Barbra Streisand to Paul McCartney to Michael Jackson, it was like an open door. The Lord blessed me with that — I prayed to God and my prayer he answered. He said, 'OK, you got the whole world now.' Every time I'd get in the car to go somewhere, I'd hear me playing the bass ... I was all over the place. I released the funk on everybody.
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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