foul
Meaning of foul
adjective
- offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty.
a foul odour
his foul breath
- wicked or immoral.
murder most foul
- containing or full of noxious matter; polluted.
foul, swampy water
- (of the weather) wet and stormy.
he walked in fair and foul weather
the weather turned foul
- (in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke or piece of play, especially one involving interference with an opponent.
the midfielder was booked for a foul on Ford
- a disease in the feet of cattle.
he was indeed suffering from foul of the foot
adverb
contrary to the rules; unfairly.
verb- make foul or dirty; pollute.
factories which fouled the atmosphere
- (in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent).
United claim their keeper was fouled
- collide with or obstruct.
the ships became overcrowded and fouled each other
will have to work towards solutions to prevent trucks from fouling railroad tracks
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’.
Information about foul
- The plural form of foul is: fouls.
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Hyphenation of foul
foul
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- foul is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
foul synonyms
Meaning disgusting:
disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Meaning fetid:
fetid, foetid, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking
Meaning cheating:
cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
Meaning dirty:
Meaning filthy:
Meaning afoul:
Meaning pollute:
Meaning clog:
Meaning befoul:
Meaning arousing intense distaste or disgust:
Meaning extremely distasteful; unacceptable:
Meaning inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant:
Meaning (of a sight or smell) disgusting; repulsive:
Meaning deserving intense dislike:
Meaning very bad or unpleasant:
Meaning causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious:
Meaning very unpleasant:
Meaning extremely bad or serious:
Meaning extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible:
Meaning extremely unpleasant:
Meaning causing shock or dismay; horrific:
Meaning horrifyingly wicked:
Meaning causing moral revulsion:
Meaning very unpleasant, serious, or shocking:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:
Meaning disgusting or offensive:
Meaning (especially of a place or prospect) not attractive:
Meaning difficult to put up with or accept:
Meaning not inviting or attractive; unwholesome:
Meaning arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive:
Meaning extremely unpleasant; repulsive:
Meaning harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant:
Meaning of great vertical extent:
Meaning a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces:
Meaning (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale:
Meaning smelling very unpleasant:
Meaning nauseating:
Meaning very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant:
Meaning very unpleasant or disagreeable:
Meaning causing repulsion or horror; grisly:
Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:
Meaning very unpleasant; repulsive:
Meaning characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil:
Meaning (of organic matter) decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell:
Meaning unpleasantly sticky:
Meaning unpleasant and of poor quality:
Meaning having an unpleasant smell:
Meaning very poor or bad:
Meaning (especially of a gas or vapour) foul-smelling; noxious:
Meaning producing an unpleasant smell; noxious:
Meaning smelling extremely unpleasant:
Meaning covered with dirt or filth:
Meaning covered with or characterized by grime:
Meaning covered with dirt; grimy:
Meaning mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed:
Meaning covered in or full of mud:
Meaning cover or fill (something) with mud:
Meaning not having been washed:
Meaning (of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect:
Meaning involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt:
Meaning in poor condition through long use or lack of care:
Meaning (of a person or situation) sordid, corrupt, or immoral:
Meaning dirty; stained:
Meaning damage the purity or integrity of:
Meaning morally, socially, or politically corrupt:
Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:
Meaning rotting or decomposing through the action of bacteria and fungi:
Meaning (of a body or other organic matter) decay or rot and produce a fetid smell:
Meaning inferior; worthless:
Meaning make dirty; pollute:
Meaning damage (someone's reputation):
Meaning blackened with ingrained dirt:
Meaning of or containing dirt, sediment, or waste matter:
Meaning profoundly immoral and wicked:
Meaning wicked and immoral; committing or characterized by the committing of sins:
Meaning not conforming to accepted standards of morality:
Meaning unjust, dishonest, or immoral:
Meaning (of an act) not fair, just, or legal:
Meaning (of language) using words generally considered offensive; vulgar:
Meaning grossly unfair and morally wrong:
Meaning having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:
Meaning irreligious or immoral:
Meaning sinful; wicked:
Meaning indifferent or hostile to religion, or having no religious beliefs:
Meaning not righteous; wicked:
Meaning involving or committing sacrilege:
Meaning (of language) blasphemous or obscene:
Meaning sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane:
Meaning showing a lack of respect for God or religion:
Meaning the lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported:
Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:
Meaning relating to, constituting, or guilty of wicked or criminal behaviour:
Meaning (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal:
Meaning having failed to adhere to the proper or accepted standards; having done wrong:
Meaning having sinned:
Meaning contaminate or pollute (something):
Meaning inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong:
Meaning causing a feeling of surprise and dismay:
Meaning shockingly bad or excessive:
Meaning deserving censure or condemnation:
Meaning deserving hatred and contempt:
Meaning deserving contempt; despicable:
Meaning (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked:
Meaning not believing in God:
Meaning extremely cruel or unpleasant:
Meaning deliberately cruel or violent:
Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:
Meaning extremely brutal:
Meaning of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white:
Meaning suggestive of or arising from evil; sinister:
Meaning (of a person or their actions) characterized by sexually abnormal and unacceptable practices or tendencies:
Meaning unprincipled:
Meaning morally corrupt; wicked:
Meaning having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline:
Meaning (of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures:
Meaning behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful, or insincere way:
Meaning having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair:
Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) not acting in accordance with moral principles:
Meaning acting or done in a secret or dishonest way:
Meaning characteristic of a dishonest or unprincipled person:
Meaning relating to crime:
Meaning forbidden by law, rules, or custom:
Meaning not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules:
Meaning contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law:
Meaning not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules:
Meaning not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order:
Meaning bent or twisted out of shape or out of place:
Meaning sharply curved or having an angle:
Meaning bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp:
Meaning situated in or full of shade:
Meaning wicked and cruel:
Meaning capable of sinning:
Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:
Meaning (of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous:
Meaning having been made impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:
Meaning contaminated with harmful or poisonous substances:
Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:
Meaning (of a person, organism, etc.) affected with a disease-causing organism:
Meaning (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet:
Meaning causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable:
Meaning unpleasant or unenjoyable:
Meaning (of weather or the sea) wild and stormy:
Meaning (of weather) characterized by strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow:
Meaning (of weather) characterized by squalls:
Meaning characterized by or blowing in gusts:
Meaning characterized by or exposed to strong winds:
Meaning (of a wind) blowing in strong gusts:
Meaning windy or windswept:
Meaning (of sea or the weather) rough and stormy:
Meaning (of weather, a period, or an area) having or characterized by considerable rainfall:
Meaning covered or saturated with water or another liquid:
Meaning full of or characterized by fog:
Meaning full of, covered with, or accompanied by mist:
Meaning dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening:
Meaning dark and gloomy, especially due to thick mist:
Meaning (of the sky or weather) marked by a covering of grey cloud; dull:
Meaning (of the sky) dark and threatening:
Meaning not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice:
Meaning not based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair:
Meaning obtained, done by, or involving deception, especially criminal deception:
Meaning the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles:
Meaning make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising:
Meaning blacken with ingrained dirt:
Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:
Meaning cover with drops or spots of something:
Meaning coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance:
Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:
Meaning contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms:
Meaning adulterate or contaminate with poison:
Meaning affect with a bad or undesirable quality:
Meaning smear or cover with a greasy or sticky substance:
foul antonyms
Meaning having a pleasant or sweet smell:
Meaning morally right or justifiable:
Meaning free from dirt, marks, or stains:
Meaning treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination:
Translation of foul
Anagrams of foul
Words that rhyme with foul
afoul, befoul, defoul, enfoul, unfoul, overfoul
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