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Synonyms for foul
faʊlfoul
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
foul
Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.
Synonyms:
bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Princeton's WordNet
fouladjective
an act that violates the rules of a sport
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fragrant, untangled, legible, fair, unobjectionable, just, inoffensive, in-bounds, cleandisgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective
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"
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filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, loathsome, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellantAntonyms:
legible, fragrant, unobjectionable, just, fair, clean, inoffensive, in-bounds, untangledfetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scentedadjective
offensively malodorous
"a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
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filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, lousy, repellent, sickening, dirty, distasteful, offensive, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, vile, low-down, disgustful, crappy, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), rotten, foul-smelling, loathsome, icky, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, nasty, unsporting, funky, smutty, stinky, repelling, loathly, shitty, fouled, queasy, repellantAntonyms:
legible, fair, unobjectionable, just, inoffensive, untangled, clean, fragrant, in-boundscheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlikeadjective
violating accepted standards or rules
"a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
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fragrant, in-bounds, inoffensive, fair, untangled, unobjectionable, just, clean, legiblefouladjective
(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
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smelly, smutty, wicked, funky, foetid, repelling, disgusting, loathsome, repellent, loathly, cheating(a), fetid, cruddy, nasty, fouled, revolting, distasteful, unsportsmanlike, foul-smelling, disgustful, filthy, marked-up, afoul(ip), dirty, noisome, unsporting, yucky, skanky, stinking, repellant, ill-scentedAntonyms:
clean, unobjectionable, inoffensive, legible, just, in-bounds, untangled, fair, fragrantdirty, foul, marked-upadjective
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes
"foul (or dirty) copy"
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filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, lousy, sordid, ill-scented, dirty, distasteful, soiled, cruddy, smelly, foetid, pestiferous, disgustful, loathly, disgusting, afoul(ip), muddied, cheating(a), unclean, foul-smelling, loathsome, ill-gotten, yucky, wicked, unsportsmanlike, skanky, nasty, unsporting, contaminating, funky, smutty, stinking, repelling, muddy, repellent, fouled, dingy, repellantAntonyms:
inoffensive, just, in-bounds, fragrant, clean, fair, legible, untangled, unobjectionablecruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smuttyadjective
characterized by obscenity
"had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
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awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, black, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, nasty, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellantAntonyms:
just, untangled, unobjectionable, fair, clean, inoffensive, legible, fragrant, in-boundsfilthy, foul, nastyadjective
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
"as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
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awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, nasty, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellantAntonyms:
unobjectionable, clean, fragrant, untangled, just, inoffensive, fair, in-bounds, legibleafoul(ip), foul, fouledverb
especially of a ship's lines etc
"with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
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fair, just, in-bounds, clean, unobjectionable, fragrant, legible, untangled, inoffensivefoulverb
hit a foul ball
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back up, maculate, choke off, befoul, clog, defile, pollute, clog up, contaminate, congest, chokeAntonyms:
inoffensive, clean, fair, just, unobjectionable, fragrant, in-bounds, untangled, legiblepollute, foul, contaminateverb
make impure
"The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
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back up, maculate, choke off, befoul, clog, defile, pollute, contaminate, clog up, congest, chokeAntonyms:
unobjectionable, fragrant, fair, legible, inoffensive, untangled, clean, just, in-boundsclog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foulverb
become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
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contaminate, drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, clot, choke, throttle, support, cash in one's chips, fret, befoul, kick the bucket, expire, choke off, back, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, defile, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, maculate, back down, go, choke down, constipate, pass, exit, back off, die, pollute, suffocate, overload, congest, scrag, stifle, choke backAntonyms:
clean, fair, fragrant, legible, untangled, inoffensive, unobjectionable, just, in-boundsfoulverb
commit a foul; break the rules
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back up, maculate, choke off, befoul, clog, defile, pollute, clog up, contaminate, congest, chokeAntonyms:
fair, clean, legible, untangled, just, inoffensive, unobjectionable, fragrant, in-boundsfoul, befoul, defile, maculateverb
spot, stain, or pollute
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
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choke off, maculate, tarnish, clog up, congest, contaminate, clog, defile, pollute, sully, stain, choke, corrupt, taint, cloud, back up, befoulAntonyms:
fair, inoffensive, fragrant, untangled, clean, in-bounds, just, unobjectionable, legiblefoulverb
make unclean
"foul the water"
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back up, maculate, choke off, befoul, clog, defile, pollute, clog up, contaminate, congest, chokeAntonyms:
clean, fair, untangled, just, inoffensive, unobjectionable, fragrant, in-bounds, legiblefoulverb
become soiled and dirty
Synonyms:
back up, maculate, choke off, befoul, clog, defile, pollute, clog up, contaminate, congest, chokeAntonyms:
fair, clean, unobjectionable, just, inoffensive, fragrant, legible, untangled, in-bounds
Editors Contribution
hellified
the accident was hellified. the outfit that girl was wearing was hellified. in urban lifestyle, it could mean it was good or bad, ( out of this world, sharp or offer). extreme.
Submitted by EJPraise on January 29, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fouladjective
Synonyms:
impure, nasty, squalid, dirty, polluted, filthy, unclean, soiled, tarnished, stained, sulliedfouladjective
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disgusting, loathsome, offensive, noisomefouladjective
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base, scandalous, infamous, vile, scurvy, unfair, dishonorable, sinister, wicked, dark, abominable, detestable, disgraceful, shamefulfouladjective
fouladjective
Synonyms:
abusive, insulting, scurrilous, foul-mouthedfouladjective
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fouladjective
Synonyms:
filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted, scurrilous, abusive, obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar, shameful, detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive, offensive, unpropitious, unfavorable, feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy, dreggishfoulverb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "foul":
fault, -out, red, disgusting
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How to use foul in a sentence?
I’ve never been one to make excuses, i’ve got to be better for my team and not put myself in position to be in foul trouble.
This recommendation attempts to balance the need for an adequate number of seating options with our desire to preserve the interactive pre-game and in-game fan experience, where fans can catch foul balls, see their favorite players up close and, if they are lucky, catch a tossed ball or other souvenir.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
I think I got it (the yellow) for an accumulation of calls, all of which were questionable I felt, i guess you could say I accumulated all those fouls so that's worth a yellow card but Cheney (Holiday) got her yellow on her very first foul of the game so I didn't think that was fair.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
Translations for foul
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- مُخالفةArabic
- замърсен, нечестен, фаулирам, неприличен, противен, задръствам, цапам, оплитам се, отвратителен, оплетен, неблагоприятен, задръствам се, мръсен, непристоен, оплитам, опетнявам, фаулBulgarian
- faltaCatalan, Valencian
- faulCzech
- verschmutzen, vulgär, garstig, [[verwirrt]] [[werden]], stinkend, verstopften, foulen, verwirren, foul, schmutzig, unflätig, beschmutzen, faul, widerlich, verstopfen, unrein, ausdrückend, [[sich]] [[verwickeln]], unanständig, verwickeln, RegelverstoßGerman
- φάουλGreek
- obstruer, ensuciar, grosero, [[cometer]] [[una]] [[falta]], taparse, perro, enredarse, obsceno, enredar, tapar, inmundo, indecente, repugnante, faltaSpanish
- vastikEstonian
- ناپاکPersian
- häpeällinen, tahrata, juuttunut, saastainen, ruma, iljettävä, surkea, sotkeutua, liata, törkyinen, häijy, sääntöjen vastainen, väärä, epäpuhdas, [[lyödä]] [[väärä]], [[rikkoa]] [[sääntö, likainen, tukkeutua, inhottava, [[lyödä]] [[ulos]], tukkia, vastenmielinen, siivoton, törkeä, kurja, rikkominen, rikeFinnish
- souillé, fauteFrench
- cacaScottish Gaelic
- falt, szabálytalanságHungarian
- ripugnante, nauseante, disgustosoItalian
- hapaMāori
- verstoppen, besmeurenDutch
- faulPolish
- detestável, faltaPortuguese
- фолить, нечестный, пошлый, похабный, отвратительный, гадкий, грязный, засоряться, засорять, скверный, непристойный, непотребный, пачкать, запутывать, безобразный, паскудный, неприличный, пятнать, зафаливать, запутываться, вульгарный, фолRussian
- befläcka, foula, smutsa ner, regelöverträdelse, regelbrott, foulSwedish
- faulTurkish
- фолUkrainian
- HôiVietnamese
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