jazz vs funk

jazz and funk both are nouns.

jazz and funk both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
jazz	Yes	No	Yes	No
funk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, funk is a hyponym of jazz; that is, funk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than jazz:

jazz: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
funk: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

Other hyponyms of jazz include scat, scat singing, bebop, bop, boogie-woogie, boogie, cool jazz, hot jazz, modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz, trad, jive, swing, swing music, jazz-rock, jazz fusion, sweet jazz.

jazz (noun)	funk (noun)
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles	an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands	a state of nervous depression
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

jazz (verb)	funk (verb)
have sexual intercourse with	draw back, as with fear or pain
play something in the style of jazz

Difference between jazz and funk

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