Dictionary Entry
foul
foul is a 4-letter English word with 33 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bird. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 33 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bird.
- 2superlative
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
- 3superlative
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- 4superlative
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- 5superlative
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- 6superlative
Ugly; homely; poor.
- 7superlative
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
- 8superlative
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- 9superlative
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
- 10transitive verb
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
- 11transitive verb
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
- 12transitive verb
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
- 13transitive verb
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
- 14intransitive verb
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
- 15intransitive verb
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
- 16noun
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
- 17noun
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
- 18noun
an act that violates the rules of a sport
- 19verb
become soiled and dirty
- 20verb
make unclean
"foul the water"
- 21verb
spot, stain, or pollute
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
- 22verb
make impure
"The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
Synonyms
- 23verb
commit a foul; break the rules
- 24verb
hit a foul ball
- 25verb
become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"
"The water pipe is backed up"
- 26adjective
especially of a ship's lines etc
"with its sails afoul"
"a foul anchor"
- 27adjective
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
"as filthy as a pigsty"
"a foul pond"
- 28adjective
characterized by obscenity
"had a filthy mouth"
"foul language"
- 29adjective
(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- 30adjective
violating accepted standards or rules
"a dirty fighter"
"used foul means to gain power"
- 31adjective
offensively malodorous
"a foul odor"
"the kitchen smelled really funky"
- 32adjective
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes
"foul (or dirty) copy"
Synonyms
- 33adjective
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"a disgusting smell"
"distasteful language"
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