Funky vs Modern - What's the difference?
funky | modern |
(US, slang) offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
(US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
(slang, UK, US) cool; great; excellent
* 1989 , inCider magazine (volume 7)
* 2001 , ELLEgirl magazine (Autumn 2001, page 127)
* 2006 , Sue Cook, Claire Crompton, Quick to Stitch Cross Stitch Cards (page 60)
Having or relating to the smell of funk.
(music) relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music.
(UK, slang, dated) Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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, title= (lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Someone who lives in modern times.
* 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
* 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
As adjectives the difference between funky and modern
is that funky is (us|slang) offbeat, unconventional or eccentric while modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.As a noun modern is
someone who lives in modern times.funky
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Eight-bit Arkanoid is a funky game — not as sexy as its 16-bit sister, but fun to spend time with. I'm hooked.
- I love high heels, and these were totally funky ! The coolest part: They actually let me take 'em home!
- What every teenage driver desires: a fab, funky car and freedom!
modern
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
Synonyms
* contemporaryAntonyms
* dated * old * pre-modern * ancientDerived terms
* modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modernNoun
(en noun)- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
- Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.
