Nouns (1)
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foul
n. any misconduct that is punished by the rules of the game or the sport
Verbs (5)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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. growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
reeking
adj. giving off a strong unpleasant smell
sour, rancid
adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness
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"
Antonyms (8)
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clean, make clean
v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
fair
adj. free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
clean
adj. not carrying concealed weapons
clean, unobjectionable
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
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