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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?
And this is because the agent told me she thought I joined Al Qaeda because they paid off my Discover card. That’s what it takes to fool the FBI, so, because they thought I joined, and I was basically judged guilty until proven innocent, they started monitoring everything and they saw they were buying laptops, ten at once, tablets on eBay. And, you gotta think, this is a dream come true. We intercept the laptops, we get the IP addresses, maybe put some GPS’s, some microphones in and we deliver them right into the hands of Al Qaeda. And they spy. And me, well I’m not coming home anyway so no harm, no foul. As long as you’re not me.
Lemme put it this way, if you do a Horns Down to a Texas player as an opponent, that’s probably going to be a foul.
Secretary Zinke was one of the most toxic members of the cabinet in the way Secretary Zinke treated our environment, our precious public lands, and the way Secretary Zinke treated the government like it was Secretary Zinke personal honey pot, the swamp cabinet will be a little less foul without Secretary Zinke.
The school invokes a broad opposition to ‘foul language’ to keep a free-market, conservative group off of campus, the higher-ups in the school administration frequently dodged requests to speak with us, and then failed to keep their facts straight.
We don't see a problem with women attending if the atmosphere in stadiums is convenient... but with so much foul language among fans and violence, this is not advisable.
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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