blue funk
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- noun
- /blu fʌŋk/
- Informal
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depresión
- Some of y'all are struggling with depression and being sad and just being in this blue funk and you can't shake it.
Examples
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In a blue funk.
Fiction book (1998) -
Are you in a blue funk because of the doctor?
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And I went home and in this blue funk, I literally had this thought.
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It seems like maybe there is a universal deep blue funk going on.
Blog text (13) -
If anybody could get Stevie out of his blue funk, it was Robbie.
Fiction book (1992) -
After she lost her job, she fell into a blue funk that lasted for weeks.
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His friends tried to cheer him up when he was stuck in a blue funk after the breakup.
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I often find myself in a blue funk during the winter months when the days are so short.
Synonyms
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3.7
A deep feeling of sadness and loss of interest in life
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A feeling of being unhappy
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7.1
A time when you feel sad or unmotivated
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4.4
A feeling of mild sadness that has no clear cause
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8.9
A feeling of sadness and low mood
A feeling of being sad or low
Antonyms
How Depressed
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- Specialized
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a state of depression or deep sadness' is directly derivable from combining 'blue' (sad) with 'funk' (a period of low spirits): the adjective simply qualifies the noun. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Blue funk may come from combining blue, a color long used for feeling sad, and funk, an old word for a stuck, fearful mood. So, imagine someone so worried and sad they seem 'blue' and cannot move from fear, and that's why blue funk means 'a state of deep sadness or anxiety'.