ultrafunky art
- noun
- /ˌʌltrəˈfʌŋki ɑrt/
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arte ultrafunky
- His taste leans toward ultrafunky art that breaks away from established conventions.
Examples
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She decorated her apartment walls with prints of ultrafunky art by emerging street artists.
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The gallery features ultrafunky art from local artists.
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The gallery's new exhibit focuses entirely on ultrafunky art from the past decade.
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I love ultrafunky art!
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The gallery's new exhibit focuses entirely on ultrafunky art from the past decade.
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She decorated her apartment walls with prints of ultrafunky art by emerging street artists.
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His taste leans toward ultrafunky art that breaks away from established conventions.
Synonyms
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5.8
Bold and unusual in style, likely to surprise people
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8.8
Very unusual in style or ideas
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4.3
Having a creative, unusual style like an artist
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8.2
Being new and unusual in art, fashion, or music
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5.7
Very new in design and using the latest ideas and technology
How Funky
Surface Forms
Morphology
ultrafunky + art
The phrase is transparently built from the intensifier prefix 'ultra-' (extremely) plus 'funky' (stylish, unconventional) modifying 'art', so a learner who knows those constituents can infer 'extremely funky/unconventional art'. The construction follows a productive, regular pattern (intensifier + adjective + noun) that is cross-linguistically familiar, making the overall meaning directly derivable.
Etymology
Ultrafunky art mixes ultra, which means 'very', and funky, which means 'cool and unusual', to give the idea of art turned up to the maximum with loud colors, strange shapes, and the energy of funk music. That's why ultrafunky art means 'extremely modern, unconventional, and stylish'.