foul
adjective
[ faʊl ]
• offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty.
• "a foul odour"
Similar:
disgusting,
revolting,
repellent,
repulsive,
repugnant,
abhorrent,
loathsome,
offensive,
detestable,
awful,
dreadful,
horrible,
terrible,
horrendous,
hideous,
appalling,
atrocious,
vile,
abominable,
frightful,
sickening,
nauseating,
nauseous,
stomach-churning,
stomach-turning,
off-putting,
uninviting,
unpalatable,
unappetizing,
unsavoury,
distasteful,
nasty,
obnoxious,
objectionable,
odious,
noxious,
evil-smelling,
foul-smelling,
smelly,
stinking,
high,
rank,
rancid,
fetid,
malodorous,
vomitous,
ghastly,
horrid,
gruesome,
godawful,
gross,
diabolical,
putrid,
yucky,
icky,
grotty,
sick-making,
gut-churning,
beastly,
whiffy,
pongy,
niffy,
lousy,
skanky,
funky,
on the nose,
noisome,
mephitic,
disgustful,
loathly,
miasmic,
miasmal,
olid,
dirty,
filthy,
mucky,
grimy,
grubby,
stained,
dirt-encrusted,
muddy,
muddied,
unclean,
unwashed,
squalid,
sordid,
shabby,
sleazy,
soiled,
sullied,
scummy,
rotten,
defiled,
decaying,
putrefied,
cruddy,
manky,
gungy,
befouled,
besmirched,
• wicked or immoral.
• "murder most foul"
Similar:
evil,
wicked,
sinful,
immoral,
wrong,
morally wrong,
wrongful,
bad,
iniquitous,
corrupt,
black-hearted,
ungodly,
unholy,
irreligious,
unrighteous,
sacrilegious,
profane,
blasphemous,
impious,
base,
mean,
vile,
villainous,
nefarious,
erring,
fallen,
impure,
sullied,
tainted,
monstrous,
shocking,
outrageous,
atrocious,
abominable,
reprehensible,
hateful,
detestable,
despicable,
odious,
contemptible,
horrible,
heinous,
execrable,
godless,
diabolical,
diabolic,
fiendish,
vicious,
murderous,
barbarous,
black,
dark,
perverted,
reprobate,
sordid,
depraved,
degenerate,
dissolute,
dishonourable,
dishonest,
unscrupulous,
unprincipled,
underhand,
roguish,
criminal,
illicit,
unlawful,
illegal,
illegitimate,
lawless,
crooked,
bent,
warped,
low-down,
stinking,
dirty,
shady,
rascally,
scoundrelly,
beastly,
not cricket,
malfeasant,
dastardly,
peccable,
egregious,
flagitious,
• containing or full of noxious matter; polluted.
• "foul, swampy water"
Similar:
contaminated,
polluted,
adulterated,
infected,
tainted,
defiled,
impure,
filthy,
dirty,
unclean,
feculent,
• (of the weather) wet and stormy.
• "he walked in fair and foul weather"
Similar:
inclement,
unpleasant,
disagreeable,
dirty,
nasty,
rough,
bad,
stormy,
squally,
gusty,
windy,
blustery,
blowy,
wild,
rainy,
wet,
foggy,
misty,
gloomy,
murky,
overcast,
louring,
foul
noun
• (in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke or piece of play, especially one involving interference with an opponent.
• "the midfielder was booked for a foul on Ford"
Similar:
unfair,
against the rules,
illegal,
unsporting,
unsportsmanlike,
below the belt,
dirty,
dishonourable,
dishonest,
underhand,
unscrupulous,
unjust,
unprincipled,
immoral,
crooked,
fraudulent,
shady,
• a disease in the feet of cattle.
• "he was indeed suffering from foul of the foot"
foul
adverb
• contrary to the rules; unfairly.
foul
verb
• make foul or dirty; pollute.
• "factories which fouled the atmosphere"
Similar:
dirty,
soil,
stain,
blacken,
muddy,
begrime,
splash,
spatter,
smear,
befoul,
besmirch,
blight,
defile,
make filthy,
infect,
pollute,
contaminate,
poison,
taint,
adulterate,
sully,
besmear,
• (in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent).
• "United claim their keeper was fouled"
• collide with or obstruct.
• "the ships became overcrowded and fouled each other"
Origin:
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’.
