English Dictionary

foul

IPA（発音記号）

/faʊl/

形容詞

語法 廃用 天候

Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. / (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive. / Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. / Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

日本語の意味

汚れた物質に覆われている、または不潔な物質を含む状態；汚い / 言葉や話し方が下品、卑猥または侮辱的である / 忌まわしい、不快な、憎むべき / 不快感を与える、嫌悪感を引き起こす

After the storm, the alley behind the restaurant was foul with mud and rotting garbage.

嵐の後、レストランの裏の路地は泥や腐ったごみで汚れていた。

意味（1）

Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

意味（2）

(of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.

The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.

意味（3）

Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.

He has a foul set of friends.

意味（4）

Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

This foul food is making me retch.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

意味（6）

(of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.

Some foul weather is brewing.

意味（7）

Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.

Foul play is not suspected.

意味（8）

(nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.

We've got a foul anchor.

意味（9）

(technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.

The bus had stopped just foul of the north track at the Erindale Station Road public railway crossing […] With the bus stationary, but still foul of the north track, the train struck one of its front mirrors.

意味（10）

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.

fouler （ comparative ）

foulest （ superlative ）