funky

Meaning of funky

adjective
  1. (of music) having or using a strong dance rhythm, in particular that of funk.
    some excellent funky beats
  2. strongly musty.
    cooked greens make the kitchen smell really funky

late 17th century (in the sense ‘smelling strong or bad’): from funk2.

adjective
  1. frightened, panicky, or cowardly.
    he did not give up to you like a funky traveller to a highwayman

mid 19th century: from funk1.

Information about funky

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of funky

funky

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • funky is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

funky synonyms

Meaning fetid:

fetid, foetid, foul, noisome, smelly, stinking

Meaning fashionable and exciting:

groovy

Meaning of, resembling, or in the style of blues music:

bluesy

Meaning of, resembling, or in the style of jazz:

jazzy

Meaning (of music or a rhythm) characterized by displaced beats or accents so that the strong beats are weak and vice versa:

syncopated

Meaning having a stale, mouldy, or damp smell:

musty

Meaning causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable:

unpleasant

Meaning suggesting something supernatural; unearthly:

weird

Translation of funky

Words that rhyme with funky

Bunky, bunky, gunky, Hunky, chunky, hunky, junky, skunky, clunky, flunky, outflunky, plunky, nunky, moorpunky, punky, spunky

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