| fetid | | |
| adj. | 1. fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking | offensively malodorous.; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" |
| ~ ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling | having an unpleasant smell. |
| foul | | |
| n. (act) | 1. foul | an act that violates the rules of a sport. |
| ~ foul ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field. |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ infringement, violation | an act that disregards an agreement or a right.; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" |
| ~ personal foul | a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football). |
| ~ technical foul, technical | (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play. |
| v. (competition) | 2. foul | hit a foul ball. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ foul out | baseball: hit a ball such that it is caught from an out in foul territory. |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| v. (change) | 3. contaminate, foul, pollute | make impure.; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
| ~ infect, taint | contaminate with a disease or microorganism. |
| ~ begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| v. (contact) | 4. back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul | become or cause to become obstructed.; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
| ~ gum up | stick together as if with gum.; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ crap up | become obstructed or chocked up.; "The drains clogged up" |
| ~ choke up, lug, stuff, block | obstruct.; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" |
| ~ silt, silt up | become chocked with silt.; "The river silted up" |
| v. (competition) | 5. foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| ~ play | participate in games or sport.; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" |
| ~ hack | kick on the shins. |
| ~ hack | kick on the arms. |
| v. (change) | 6. befoul, defile, foul, maculate | spot, stain, or pollute.; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" |
| ~ attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame | bring shame or dishonor upon.; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" |
| v. (change) | 7. foul | make unclean.; "foul the water" |
| ~ begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| v. (change) | 8. foul | become soiled and dirty. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| adj. | 9. disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" |
| ~ offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses.; "offensive odors" |
| adj. | 10. cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | violating accepted standards or rules.; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" |
| ~ unfair, unjust | not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception.; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" |
| adj. | 11. foul | (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ out-of-bounds | outside the foul lines. |
| adj. | 12. dirty, foul, marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes.; "foul (or dirty) copy" |
| ~ illegible | (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible.; "illegible handwriting" |
| adj. | 13. cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty | characterized by obscenity.; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" |
| ~ dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| adj. | 14. filthy, foul, nasty | disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter.; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" |
| ~ dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| adj. | 15. afoul, foul, fouled | especially of a ship's lines etc.; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
| stink | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. |
| ~ odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ niff, pong | an unpleasant smell. |
| v. (stative) | 2. stink | be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.; "This term paper stinks!" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (perception) | 3. reek, stink | smell badly and offensively.; "The building reeks of smoke" |
| ~ smell | smell bad.; "He rarely washes, and he smells" |
| odor | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent, smell | any property detected by the olfactory system. |
| ~ property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" |
| ~ fragrancy, redolence, bouquet, fragrance, sweetness | a pleasingly sweet olfactory property. |
| ~ fetidness, malodorousness, stinkiness, rankness, foulness | the attribute of having a strong offensive smell. |
| ~ muskiness | having the olfactory properties of musk. |
| ~ rancidness | the property of being rancid. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation.; "a sensation of touch" |
| ~ scent | an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced. |
| ~ fragrance, perfume, scent, aroma | a distinctive odor that is pleasant. |
| ~ fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, reek, stench, stink, mephitis | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. |
| ~ acridity | having an acrid smell. |
| scent | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. aroma, fragrance, perfume, scent | a distinctive odor that is pleasant. |
| ~ odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ incense | the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned.; "incense filled the room" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. scent | an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced. |
| ~ odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ musk | the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer. |
| v. (perception) | 3. odorize, odourise, scent | cause to smell or be smelly. |
| ~ smell | emit an odor.; "The soup smells good" |
| ~ cause to be perceived | have perceptible qualities. |
| ~ smell up, stink out, stink up | cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell. |
| ~ aromatise, aromatize, perfume | fill or impregnate with an odor.; "orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden" |
| ~ cense, incense, thurify | perfume especially with a censer. |
| v. (perception) | 4. nose, scent, wind | catch the scent of; get wind of.; "The dog nosed out the drugs" |
| ~ smell | inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense. |
| v. (body) | 5. perfume, scent | apply perfume to.; "She perfumes herself every day" |
| ~ neaten, groom | care for one's external appearance.; "He is always well-groomed" |
| smell | | |
| n. (state) | 1. feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" |
| ~ ambiance, ambience, atmosphere | a particular environment or surrounding influence.; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" |
| ~ hollywood | a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry.; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood" |
| ~ zeitgeist | the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents. |
| ~ sense modality, sensory system, modality | a particular sense. |
| ~ exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. |
| ~ nose | the sense of smell (especially in animals).; "the hound has a good nose" |
| n. (act) | 3. smell, smelling | the act of perceiving the odor of something. |
| ~ sensing, perception | becoming aware of something via the senses. |
| ~ sniff, snuff | sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose. |
| v. (perception) | 4. smell | inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense. |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
| ~ sniff, whiff | perceive by inhaling through the nose.; "sniff the perfume" |
| ~ scent, nose, wind | catch the scent of; get wind of.; "The dog nosed out the drugs" |
| ~ snuff, snuffle | sniff or smell inquiringly. |
| ~ get a noseful, get a whiff | smell strongly and intensely. |
| v. (perception) | 5. smell | emit an odor.; "The soup smells good" |
| ~ cause to be perceived | have perceptible qualities. |
| ~ smell | smell bad.; "He rarely washes, and he smells" |
| v. (perception) | 6. smell | smell bad.; "He rarely washes, and he smells" |
| ~ smell | emit an odor.; "The soup smells good" |
| ~ reek, stink | smell badly and offensively.; "The building reeks of smoke" |
| ~ salute | become noticeable.; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils" |
| v. (perception) | 7. reek, smack, smell | have an element suggestive (of something).; "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" |
| ~ paint a picture, evoke, suggest | call to mind.; "this remark evoked sadness" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. sense, smell, smell out | become aware of not through the senses but instinctively.; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" |
| ~ perceive | become conscious of.; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" |
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