This song samples a bunch of old American funk records from the 70s using equipment from the 90s.
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Funk
//fʌŋk//
Synonyms for "funk" (106 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (53)
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More general
3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
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3 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
95 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- депресия noun (mental depression)
- паника noun (state of fear or panic)
- прахан noun (touchwood, punk, tinder)
- страх noun (state of fear or panic)
Catalan
1 entries- esca noun (touchwood, punk, tinder)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 恐懼 /恐惧 noun (state of fear or panic)
- 抑鬱 /抑郁 noun (mental depression)
- 放克 noun (genre of popular music)
- 瘋克 /疯克 noun (genre of popular music)
Danish
1 entries- funk noun (genre of popular music)
Esperanto
1 entries- funko noun (genre of popular music)
Finnish
4 entries- dunkkis noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- funk noun (genre of popular music)
- haju noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- kauhu noun (state of fear or panic)
French
2 entries- funk noun (genre of popular music)
- puanteur noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
Galician
4 entries- bravú noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- chatún noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- cheirume noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- farume noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
Georgian
1 entries- ფანკი noun (genre of popular music)
German
4 entries- Angst noun (state of fear or panic)
- Bammel noun (state of fear or panic)
- Funk noun (genre of popular music)
- Geruch noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
Hebrew
1 entries- פאנק noun (genre of popular music)
Hungarian
4 entries- be van gyulladva/tojva/rezelve verb (to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear)
- fél verb (to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear)
- húzódozik verb (to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear)
- parázik verb (to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear)
Irish
1 entries- func noun (genre of popular music)
Italian
1 entries- funk noun (genre of popular music)
Japanese
1 entries- ファンク noun (genre of popular music)
Norwegian
1 entries- deppa noun (mental depression)
Polish
1 entries- funk noun (genre of popular music)
Portuguese
2 entries- fedor noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- funk noun (genre of popular music)
Russian
4 entries- вонь noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- депре́ссия noun (mental depression)
- злово́ние noun (foul or unpleasant smell)
- испу́г noun (state of fear or panic)
Spanish
4 entries- bajones noun (mental depression)
- bajón noun (mental depression)
- depresiones noun (mental depression)
- depresión noun (mental depression)
Swedish
1 entries- funk noun (genre of popular music)
Welsh
1 entries- ffync noun (genre of popular music)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
This is the gladdest I've seen him since his mother died. He'd been in a funk for so long and, God, I was so worried about him.
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Tom was in a funk.
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Tom was in a funk band.
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