Word Meanings - FOUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOUL)

• Abominable
• Abhorrent
• foul
• accursed
• detestable
• hateful
• horrible
• loathsome
• odious
• offensive
• execrable
• nauseous
• impure
• Fetid
• Stinking
• corrupt
• Filthy
• Dirty
• nasty
• dingy
• unclean
• squalid
• Offensive
• Aggressive
• obnoxious
• distasteful
• displeasing
• fetid
• unsavory
• Putrid
• decayed
• decomposed
• rotten
• mean
• base
• worthless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FOUL)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to FOUL)

• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• FETIDNESS
  The quality or state of being fetid.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• STINKARD
  The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. (more info) 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.
• STINKPOT
  The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. (more info) 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.