foul :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (1)

foul

n. any misconduct that is punished by the rules of the game or the sport

Verbs (5)

foul

v. hit a foul ball

foul

v. commit a foul; break the rules

foul

v. to hit a ball foul

foul

v. make unclean; "foul the water"

foul

v. become soiled and dirty

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (42)

foul

adj. contrary to the rules or established usages as of a sport or game

foul

adj. pertaining to a foul ball or a foul line

foul

adj. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines

dirty, foul, marked-up

adj. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

foul, unfair, unjust

adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

afoul(ip), foul, fouled

adj. especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"

filthy, foul, nasty

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike

adj. violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented

adj. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"

foul, dirty, unpleasant, filthy, nasty, abominable, beastly, vile

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

Fuzzynyms (53)

ignoble

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

adulterate, adulterated, debased

adj. mixed with impurities

dirty, pestiferous

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

defiled, impure

adj. having the purity corrupted; made unclean; "the defiled Temple"

contaminated, polluted

adj. rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"

crude, earthy, gross, vulgar

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful

adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"

indecent

adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"

obscene

adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead

pornographic, adult

adj. designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies"

overabundant, plethoric, rife

adj. excessively abundant

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

sooty

adj. covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

racy

adj. designed or suitable for competing in a race

immodest

adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

offensive, unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the sense

offensive

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

abominable, detestable, execrable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

hateful

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

Synonyms (80)

indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable, unreadable

adj. not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting"

debasing, degrading

adj. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

unprincipled

adj. having little or no integrity

yellow

adj. cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"

intertwined

adj. twined or twisted together

knotty, snarled, snarly

adj. tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"

matted

adj. tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth"

rootbound

adj. having the roots matted or densely tangled; "shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs"- William Faulkner

Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

befouled, fouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

dusty, dust-covered

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

feculent

adj. foul with waste matter

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

mucky, muddy

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

raw

adj. brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"

blasphemous, blue, profane

adj. characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

dirty-minded

adj. having lewd thoughts

foul-mouthed, foul-spoken

adj. using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"

lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious

adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

scabrous

adj. dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"

scatological

adj. dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"

alliaceous

adj. smelling of onions or garlic

bilgy

adj. smelling like bilge water

fusty, musty, frowsty

adj. stale and unclean smelling

gamey, gamy, high

adj. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted