foul
adjective
1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Similar word(s): offensive, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky
2. offensively malodorous
- a foul odor
Similar word(s): malodorous, malodourous, stinky, fetid, foetid, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking
3. violating accepted standards or rules
- used foul means to gain power
Similar word(s): unfair, unjust, cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
4. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
5. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- foul (or dirty) copy
Similar word(s): illegible, dirty
6. characterized by obscenity
- foul language
Similar word(s): dirty, cruddy, filthy, nasty, smutty
7. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- a foul pond
Similar word(s): dirty, soiled, unclean, filthy, nasty
8. especially of a ship's lines etc
- with its sails afoul
- a foul anchor
Similar word(s): tangled, afoul, fouled
Sentences with foul as an adjective:
- This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
- His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.
- The air was so foul nobody could breathe.
- A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles
- A well is foul with polluted water.
- The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.
- His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.
- He has a foul set of friends.
- This foul food is making me retch.
- There was a foul smell coming from the toilet.
- Some foul weather is brewing.
- Foul play is not suspected.
- We've got a foul anchor.
- Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.
noun
1. an act that violates the rules of a sport
Definition categories: act, infringement, violation
Sentences with foul as a noun:
- Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
verb
1. hit a foul ball
Definition categories: competition, hit
2. make impure
Similar word(s): contaminate, pollute
Definition categories: change, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
3. become or cause to become obstructed
Similar word(s): choke, clog, congest
Definition categories: contact, block, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
4. commit a foul; break the rules
Definition categories: competition, play
5. spot, stain, or pollute
Similar word(s): befoul, defile, maculate
Definition categories: change, attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame
6. make unclean
- foul the water
Definition categories: change, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
7. become soiled and dirty
Definition categories: change
Sentences with foul as a verb:
- to foul the face or hands with mire
- She's fouled her diaper.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- The hair has fouled the drain.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- The drain fouled.
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- Jones fouled for strike one.