foulness

foul  (foul)

adj. foul·er, foul·est

1. Offensive to the senses; revolting.

2. Having an offensive odor; smelly.

3. Rotten or putrid: foul meat.

4.

a. Full of dirt or mud; dirty. See Synonyms at dirty.

b. Full of impurities; polluted: foul air.

5. Morally detestable; wicked: foul deeds.

6. Of a vulgar or obscene nature: foul language.

7. Very disagreeable or displeasing; horrid: a foul movie.

8. Bad or unfavorable: in fair weather or foul.

9. Violating accepted standards or rules; dishonorable: used foul means to gain power.

10.

a. Sports Contrary to the rules of a game or sport: a foul boxing punch.

b. Baseball Outside the foul lines: a foul fly ball.

11. Entangled or twisted: a foul anchor.

12. Clogged or obstructed; blocked: a foul ventilator shaft.

13. Archaic Ugly; unattractive.

n.

1. Abbr. F

a. Sports An infraction or a violation of the rules of play.

b. Baseball A foul ball.

2. An entanglement or a collision.

3. An instance of clogging or obstructing.

adv.

In a foul manner.

v. fouled, foul·ing, fouls

v.tr.

1. To make dirty or foul; pollute. See Synonyms at contaminate.

2. To bring into dishonor; besmirch.

3. To clog or obstruct.

4. To entangle or catch (a rope, for example).

5. Nautical To encrust (a ship's hull) with foreign matter, such as barnacles.

6.

a. Sports To commit a foul against.

b. Baseball To hit (a ball) outside the foul lines.

v.intr.

1. To become foul.

2.

a. Sports To commit a foul.

b. Baseball To hit a ball outside the foul lines: fouled twice and then struck out; fouled out to the catcher.

3. To become entangled or twisted: The anchor line fouled on a rock.

4. To become clogged or obstructed.

Phrasal Verbs:

foul out

Sports To be put out of a game for exceeding the number of permissible fouls.

foul up

To blunder or cause to blunder because of mistakes or poor judgment.

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[Middle English, from Old English fl; see p- in Indo-European roots.]

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foully adv.

foulness n.

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foulness [ˈfaʊlnɪs]

n

1. the state or quality of being foul

2. obscenity; vulgarity

3. viciousness or inhumanity

4. foul matter; filth

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Foulness [faʊlˈnɛs]

n

(Placename) a flat marshy island in SE England, in Essex north of the Thames estuary

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	foulness - disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" iniquity, wickedness, dark, darkness - absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
	2.	foulness - a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse filthiness, nastiness, filth unsanitariness - a state that is not conducive to health
	3.	foulness - (of weather) the badness of the weather; "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather" raininess severeness, severity, badness - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
	4.	foulness - the attribute of having a strong offensive smell fetidness, malodorousness, stinkiness, rankness aroma, odor, olfactory property, odour, smell, scent - any property detected by the olfactory system B.O., body odor, body odour - malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe

Translations

foulness

n

(= disgusting nature, of place, food, taste, smell, breath) → Widerlichkeit f; (of water) → Fauligkeit f; (of air) → Stickigkeit f

(= dreadfulness) (of behaviour, crime) → Abscheulichkeit f; (of day, weather) → Scheußlichkeit f (inf); the foulness of his behaviour (Brit) or behavior (US) to her, his foulness to her → sein gemeines Verhalten or seine Gemeinheit ihr gegenüber; the foulness of her mood → ihre ganz üble Laune; the foulness of her temper → ihre schreckliche Übellaunigkeit

(of language) → Unflätigkeit f