Soil
Contents
English
Noun
Soil (countable and uncountable; plural Soils)- (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- (countable) In medical terms, a bag containing soiled items.
- (euphemisms) Country or territory.
- (uncountable, euphemisms) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- (countable) In medical terms, a bag containing soiled items.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
Verb
Soil (third-person singular simple present Soils, present participle Soiling, simple past and past participle Soiled)
- To make dirty.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
Adjectives for Soil
humid; volcanic; blood-stained; hallowed; luxuriant; teeming; sterile; sifted; repressed; alluvial; enchanted; thirsty; marshy; unbroken; unproductive; friendly; noxious; ill-smelling; fertile; wholesome; friable; sacred; desolate; accursed; fruitful; parched; arid; sandy; indistinguishable; ancient; smoking; niggardly; poor; rich; radiant; favored; fallow; cultivated; kind; surrounding; ungrateful; neglected; peaty; wretched; congenial; tillable; swampy; burning; mangled; barren; foreign; adjacent; drenched; crusty; virgin; exhausted; devastated; mortal; tropic; native; alien; nitrous; conquered; oozy; crumbling.
Verbs for Soil
cleave—; conserve—; cultivate—; devitalize—; drain—; enrich—; fertilize—; furrow—; harrow—; irrigate—; impregnate—; preserve—; pry from—; renew—; renounce—; revitalize—; ridge up—; rob—; root in—; scratch—; set foot on—; smell—; sow—; starve—; till—; wring from—; —begrimes; —blesses; —erodes; —procreates; —satisfies; —smudges.
Adverbs for Soil
carelessly; obnoxiously; markedly; hopelessly; disgustingly; annoyingly; exasperatingly.
Thesaurus
abuse, acres, adobe, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, attaint, bedaub, befoul, begrime, belt, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betray, black, blacken, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, bole, brand, call names, censure, china clay, clay, clod, confines, contaminate, continental shelf, corridor, corrupt, country, crust, darken, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, department, despoil, dirt, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, district, division, drabble, draggle, dregs, dry land, dust, earth, engage in personalities, environs, excrement, expose, expose to infamy, filth, force, foul, freehold, gibbet, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, heartland, hinterland, humus, kaolin, land, landholdings, lead astray, lithosphere, loam, loess, marginal land, mark, marl, mess, milieu, mire, mislead, mold, motherland, muck, muckrake, mucky, mud, muddy, murk, nasty, neighborhood, offshore rights, part, parts, pillory, place, pollute, porcelain clay, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, rape, ravage, ravish, real estate, real property, red clay, refuse, region, regolith, reprimand, revile, ruin, salient, sand, scorch, sear, section, seduce, silt, singe, slubber, sludge, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sod, soilage, soilure, space, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, subsoil, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, terrain, territory, the country, three-mile limit, throw mud at, till, topsoil, turf, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, vilify, violate, vitiate, waste matter, woodland, zone
