funk
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state of nervous depression
he was in a funk
Types & categories
- depression hypernym
Sense 2 verb
draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
Types & categories
- move hypernym
- shrink back hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
Types & categories
- jazz hypernym
Related & opposite
- low-down derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | depression |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flinch |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | wince |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shrink back |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | low-down |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | jazz |