English words for 'utter obscenities or profanities'
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verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
- (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
- (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
- (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- something causing misery or death
- a severe affliction
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
verb
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a persistently annoying person
- a boy or man
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.)
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- (ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- make a deposition; declare under oath
- have faith or confidence in
- promise solemnly; take an oath
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (ambitransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
- (transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- (Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- (transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- (transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).
adj
noun
noun
- (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.
- (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (uncountable) A manner of expression.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
intj
verb
adj
verb
adj
- characterized by obscenity
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- violating accepted standards or rules
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
noun
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
verb
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
adj
- characterized by obscenity
- Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
- (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
- Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
- Spiteful, unkind.
- Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
- (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
- (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- (phytopathology) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
- (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- (uncountable) Soot.
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
verb
- (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- make obscene
- become affected with smut
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
noun
noun
interfix
adj
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
adj
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
verb
noun
adj
- Obscene or explicit.
- Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
- Resistant to change.
- So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
- (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
- (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.
- (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
- intensely loyal
- extremely explicit
adv
noun
noun
- (vulgar, slang) Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- (rhetoric) Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- (vulgar, slang) Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- (vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.
- (philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- (card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
- (vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
adj
intj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
- a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
- (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
- An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).
- (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
adj
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior
- a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury
- A curse, a curse word.
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
adj
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- violating accepted standards or rules
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
verb
adv
noun
adj
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
adv
intj
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The fact of being obscene.
- (countable) Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
- (countable) An act of obscene behaviour.
- (countable) Something that is obscene.
- (uncountable) Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material.
- the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- an obscene act
adj
- (figuratively, somewhat derogatory) Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
- (figuratively) Preternatural or supernatural.
- (figuratively) Ideal beyond the mundane.
- Not of the earth; nonterrestrial.
- (figuratively) Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
- suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
adj
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
noun
verb
adj
- (by extension) Lascivious, obscene.
- (historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.
- (poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.
- Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.
- (specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.
noun
noun
- (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.
- (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (uncountable) A manner of expression.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
intj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- (phytopathology) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
- (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- (uncountable) Soot.
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
verb
- (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- make obscene
- become affected with smut
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
noun
noun
noun
- (vulgar, slang) Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- (rhetoric) Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- (vulgar, slang) Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- (vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.
- (philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- (card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
- (vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
adj
intj
verb
noun
verb
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- something causing misery or death
- a severe affliction
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
verb
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a persistently annoying person
- a boy or man
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.)
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
- a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
- (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
- An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).
- (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
adj
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior
- a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury
- A curse, a curse word.
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
noun
- (uncountable) The fact of being obscene.
- (countable) Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
- (countable) An act of obscene behaviour.
- (countable) Something that is obscene.
- (uncountable) Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material.
- the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- an obscene act
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
- (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
- (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
- (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- something causing misery or death
- a severe affliction
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
verb
noun
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a persistently annoying person
- a boy or man
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.)
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- (ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- make a deposition; declare under oath
- have faith or confidence in
- promise solemnly; take an oath
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (ambitransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
- (transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- (Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- (transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- (transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).
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adj
- characterized by obscenity
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- violating accepted standards or rules
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
noun
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
verb
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
adj
- characterized by obscenity
- Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
- (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
- Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
- Spiteful, unkind.
- Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
- (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
- (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
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adj
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
adj
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
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noun
adj
- Obscene or explicit.
- Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
- Resistant to change.
- So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
- (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
- (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.
- (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
- intensely loyal
- extremely explicit
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noun
adj
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- violating accepted standards or rules
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
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noun
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- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
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verb
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- (figuratively, somewhat derogatory) Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
- (figuratively) Preternatural or supernatural.
- (figuratively) Ideal beyond the mundane.
- Not of the earth; nonterrestrial.
- (figuratively) Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
- suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
adj
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
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verb
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- (by extension) Lascivious, obscene.
- (historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.
- (poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.
- Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.
- (specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.