'Funky' definitions:
Definition of 'funky'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented]
adjective
(of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues [syn: funky, low-down]
adjective
Stylish and modern in an unconventional way; "she likes funky clothes"; "we did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"
adjective
In a state of cowardly fright
Definition of 'Funky'
From: GCIDE
- Funky \Funk"y\ (f[u^][ng]k"[y^]), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking; having great fear. [Colloq. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Funky'
From: GCIDE
- Funky \Funk"y\ (f[u^][ng]k"[y^]), n. having an earthy, unsophisticated style or feeling; in (Music), earthy and seemingly unsophisticated, having elements of black American blues and gospel. See 2nd funk, n. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'funky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- afraid,
- atrabiliar,
- atrabilious,
- bad,
- bad-smelling,
- blue,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowsy,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funking,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- graveolent,
- henhearted,
- high,
- ill-smelling,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- malodorous,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- moldy,
- mousy,
- musty,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- olid,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pensive,
- pigeonhearted,
- putrid,
- rabbity,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- soft,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- stinking,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tristful,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- vile,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- wistful,
- yellow