Funk vs Sad - What's the difference?
funk | sad |
(countable) mental depression
(uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
(rft-sense) (uncountable) Music that combines traditional forms of black music (as blues, gospel, or soul) and is characterized by a strong backbeat.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
(label) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
(label) Steadfast, valiant.
*, Book V:
*:And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes.
(label) Dignified, serious, grave.
*, II.xi:
*:Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit sad , / Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:ripe and sad courage
* (1467-1533)
*:which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties
(label) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.
(label) Emotionally negative.
#Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
#*1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
#*:this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.
#*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)
#*:sad -coloured clothes
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#*:Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colours.
#Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:First were we sad , fearing you would not come; / Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad .
#Appearing sorrowful.
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#Causing sorrow; lamentable.
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#*:The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad .
#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 #Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
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#*1819 , (Lord Byron), , II.127:
#*:Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please.
(label) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
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(label) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
(label) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
:sad bread
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:his hand, more sad than lump of lead
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*:Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad .
In obsolete terms the difference between funk and sad
is that funk is touchwood, punk, tinder while sad is heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.As a noun funk
is spark.As a verb funk
is to shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.As an adjective sad is
sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.As an acronym SAD is
seasonal affective disorder.funk
English
(wikipedia funk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) funke, . More at (l).Etymology 2
1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning "to panic, fail due to panic". Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk
Etymology 3
1620, from (etyl) dialectal (Norman) funquer, . More at (l).Noun
Derived terms
* electrofunk * funkyVerb
(en verb)- (King)
sad
English
Adjective
(sadder)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad .}}
John Mortimer(1656?-1736)