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.
Definitions
- noun. A bird.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- superlative. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- superlative. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- superlative. Ugly; homely; poor.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- superlative. 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.
- transitive verb. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
- transitive verb. To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
- transitive verb. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
- transitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
- intransitive verb. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
- noun. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
- noun. See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
- noun. an act that violates the rules of a sport
- verb. become soiled and dirty
- verb. make unclean
"foul the water"
- verb. spot, stain, or pollute
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
- verb. make impure
"The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
- verb. commit a foul; break the rules
- verb. hit a foul ball
- verb. become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"
"The water pipe is backed up"
- adjective. especially of a ship's lines etc
"with its sails afoul"
"a foul anchor"
- adjective. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
"as filthy as a pigsty"
"a foul pond"
- adjective. characterized by obscenity
"had a filthy mouth"
"foul language"
- adjective. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- adjective. violating accepted standards or rules
"a dirty fighter"
"used foul means to gain power"
- adjective. offensively malodorous
"a foul odor"
"the kitchen smelled really funky"
- adjective. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
"foul (or dirty) copy"
- adjective. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"a disgusting smell"
"distasteful language"
Synonyms
befoul, defile, maculate, contaminate, pollute, choke, clog, congest, afoul, fouled, filthy, nasty, cruddy, smutty, cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, fetid, foetid, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking
Common word forms
fouls, fouled, fouler, foully, foulest, fouling, foulness
Words from these letters
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