Nouns (2)
foul
n. any misconduct that is punished by the rules of the game or the sport
foul ball
n. (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field
Verbs (20)
foul
v. to hit a ball foul
make foul
v. make foul
hit a foul ball
v. hit a foul ball
become dirty, become foul
v. become soiled and dirty
defile, befoul, maculate
v. spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
pollute, contaminate, make impure
v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
break the rules, commit a foul, make a foul
v. commit a foul; break the rules
choke, clog, back up, choke off, congest, clog up
v. become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (34)
foul
adj. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
foul
adj. pertaining to a foul ball or a foul line
foul
adj. contrary to the rules or established usages as of a sport or game
afoul, fouled
adj. especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
filthy, nasty
adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
unfair, unjust
adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"
dirty, marked-up
adj. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"
rank, vulgar, nasty, smutty
adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
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"
funky, putrid, fetid, foul-smelling, noisome, smelly, stinking
adj. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
Fuzzynyms (223)
debauch, pervert, corrupt, vitiate, debase, demoralize, profane, deprave, misdirect
v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
muddy, muddy up
v. dirty with mud
doctor, sophisticate, adulterate, doctor up
v. alter with the intention to deceive
make radioactive, contaminate
v. make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
debauch, pervert, corrupt, vitiate, debase, demoralize, profane, deprave, misdirect
v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
stain, leave stains, produce stains
v. produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"
poison, envenom
v. add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"
defile, taint, corrupt, sully
v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
binge, stuff, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, satiate, pig out, scarf out, pok out
v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"
fill, become full, fill up
v. become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"
block
v. shape by using a block, as of a hat
shutdown, close, shut, become closed, shut down
v. become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang"
overcrowd
v. crowd together too much
sluttish, blowsy, blowzy, frowsy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly
adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
adulterate, debased, adulterated
adj. mixed with impurities
dirty, infected, contaminated
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"
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.
gross, earthy, coarse
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"
lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous
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
adj. designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"
overabundant, plethoric, rife
adj. excessively abundant
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
jet, pitchy, coal-black, jet-black, pitch-black, sooty
adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative
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"
blue, gamy, gamey, naughty, juicy, spicy, racy, risque
adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
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"
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
livery, bilious, liverish
adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous
adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
sick, nauseated, queasy, sickish
adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting
adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
adj. not pleasing in odor or taste
flat, insipid, bland, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless
adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
tasteless
adj. lacking flavor
nasty
adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
common, crude, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
profane
adj. not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, violent, butcherly
adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
bloody
adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre
adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
ugly, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible
adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
caitiff, despicable
adj. despicably mean and cowardly
infernal
adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"
damnable, execrable
adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
base, ugly, vile
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
contemptible
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn
abominable, execrable, detestable, 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 (124)
intertwined
adj. twined or twisted together
knotted, 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
adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, 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
adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
fecal, feculent, faecal
adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
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"
muddy, mucky
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"
debasing, degrading
adj. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
inglorious, disgraceful, ignominious, 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"
unclear, indecipherable, undecipherable, unreadable
adj. not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting"
blue, bawdy, ribald, off-color, off-colour
adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
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, indecent, obscene, 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"
repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
gross, swinish, bestial
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
ghastly, sepulchral, charnel
adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
crying, rank, gross, egregious, flagrant
adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative
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"
morbid, ghoulish
adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
hideous, horrid, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
scrimy
adj. dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine
verminous
adj. of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive
severe, intemperate
adj. (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones"
rainy
adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"
alliaceous
adj. smelling of onions or garlic
bilgy
adj. smelling like bilge water
fusty, musty, frowsty
adj. stale and unclean smelling
high, gamy, gamey
adj. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
miasmic, mephitic
adj. of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
niffy
adj. (British informal) malodorous
odoriferous, odorous
adj. emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"
rank
adj. having a strong unpleasant smell
reeking
adj. giving off a strong unpleasant smell
sour, rancid
adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness
Antonyms (17)
fair ball
n. (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field
clean, make clean
v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
reward, honor, honour, bring honor to, do honor to
v. bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"
disinfect
v. destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound"
clean, make clean
v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
unclog
v. become or cause to become unobstructed; "The chemical that we poured down the drain unclogged it"
fair
adj. (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines; "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
clean
adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
clean
adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"
decent
adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
fragrant
adj. pleasant-smelling
foul
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