cursed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [kʰɝst] (US)
- kûrst (UK)
- /kɜːst/ (UK)
- /ˈkɝsɪd/ (US)
- (US) audio
- kûrsʹĭd (UK)
- /kɝst/ (US)
- kûrst (US)
- [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d] (US)
- /ˈkɜːsɪd/ (UK)
- kûrsʹĭd (US)
Etymology
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Meanings
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
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(obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends none.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
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hateful; damnable; accursed
That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
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(colloquial) Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
“Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”
2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cursedest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| most cursed | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more cursed | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| curséd | alternative, poetic | lexicographic | |
| curst | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| cursèd | alternative, poetic | lexicographic | |
| curseder | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
cursedly · cursedness · uncursed · blursed
Relateds
Synonyms
star-crossed · bloody · damned · doomed · accursed · dang · cussed · cursed · accursed · shrewlike · bleeping · dratted · cursed · cowson · sodding · blimming · gormed · dead meat · shrewish · finished · under a spell · blooming · flipping · darn · macabre · fucking · doggone · cringe · cotton-picking · blasted · stinking · fugging · goddam · precious · ever-loving · dashed · darned · infernal · flaming · forspoken · ensorcelled · raasclaat · damnable · confounded · harpyish · damned · bally · bespelled · fudging · bizarre · dadburn · dadgum · goshdarned · furshlugginer · goddarned · plain · goddamn · bewitched · harpylike · 4ucking · damn · jiggered · goshdarn · hecking · spellbound · ever-loving · motherfucking · fricking · fecking · ruddy · condemned · dagnabbed · done · undone · accursed · mollyfogging · consarned · freaking · holy · bloody · blinking · goddamned · maleficiate · spellbound · ill-fated · blessed · damblasted · sniggered · danged · charmed · bewitched · fey · cursed · cussed · deuced · living · pissing · effing · enchanted · bleeding · lost · godforsaken · sunk · sentenced · goldurn · frigging
Translations (37)
fi kirottu (having some sort of divine harm) · de verwünscht (having some sort of divine harm) · pt maldito (having some sort of divine harm) · nl vervloekt (having some sort of divine harm) · ar لَعِين (having some sort of divine harm) · pt amaldiçoado (having some sort of divine harm) · bg прокълнат (having some sort of divine harm) · de verflucht (having some sort of divine harm) · tr lanetli (having some sort of divine harm) · sw laanifu (having some sort of divine harm) · ro blestemat (having some sort of divine harm) · es anatematizado (having some sort of divine harm) · uk зловредний (having some sort of divine harm) · grc κατάρατος (having some sort of divine harm) · ar مَلْعُون (having some sort of divine harm) · he אָרוּר (having some sort of divine harm) · kw molothek (having some sort of divine harm) · sh proklet (having some sort of divine harm) · es imprecado (having some sort of divine harm) · uk проклятий (having some sort of divine harm) · da forbandet (having some sort of divine harm) · es maldito (having some sort of divine harm) · sv förbannad (having some sort of divine harm) · sa अवशप्त (having some sort of divine harm) · ru проклятый (having some sort of divine harm) · ko 저주받은 (having some sort of divine harm) · mk клет (having some sort of divine harm) · he מקולל (having some sort of divine harm) · it maledetto (having some sort of divine harm) · tr lain (having some sort of divine harm) · el καταραμένος (having some sort of divine harm) · pl przeklęty (having some sort of divine harm) · tr melun (having some sort of divine harm) · ja 呪われた (having some sort of divine harm) · hu átkozott (having some sort of divine harm) · hu elátkozott (having some sort of divine harm) · fr maudit (having some sort of divine harm)