funky
About 0.31 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
- adjective Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- adjective Cool; great; excellent.
- adjective Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
- adjective Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
- adjective Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Similar words
low-down noisome fearful cowardly coward emotional foul putrid foetid fetid
Often followed by
and little old music chicken butt as clothes jazz
Word family
funkier funkiest funkily funkiness funkinesses funkyer funkyest
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