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English
Etymology
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- Verb
Adjective
cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. , quarto edition, London: V S for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]: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.
- hateful; damnable; accursed
That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling.
2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York:“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.”
Alternative forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “having some sort of divine harm”): blessed
Derived terms
Translations
having some sort of divine harm
- Bulgarian: прокълнат (bg) (prokǎlnat)
- Cornish: molothek
- Danish: forbandet (da)
- Dutch: vervloekt (nl)
- Finnish: kirottu (fi)
- French: maudit (fr) m, maudite (fr) f
- German: verflucht (de), verwünscht (de)
- Greek: καταραμένος (el) m (kataraménos)
- Ancient: κατάρατος (katáratos)
- Hebrew: מקולל m (mequlal), מקוללת f (mequlelet), אָרוּר (he) m (arúr)
- Hungarian: átkozott (hu), elátkozott (hu)
- Italian: maledetto (it) m, maledetta (it) f
- Japanese: 呪われた (のろわれた, norowareta)
- Macedonian: клет (klet)
- Polish: przeklęty (pl)
- Portuguese: amaldiçoado (pt) m, amaldiçoada f, maldito (pt) m, maldita (pt) f
- Romanian: blestemat (ro)
- Russian: проклятый (ru) (prokljatyj)
- Sanskrit: अवशप्त (sa) (avaśapta)
- Serbo-Croatian: proklet (sh) m
- Spanish: maldito (es)
- Swedish: förbannad (sv)
- Turkish: lanetli (tr)
- Ukrainian: зловредний (zlovrednyj), проклятий (prokljatyj)
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See also
Verb
cursed
- simple past and past participle of curse
Alternative forms
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cursen.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cursed
- accursed
Descendants
References
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English cursed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cursed
- cursed
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:To hint dhicka cursed vox vrom Bloomere's lhoan.- To hunt that cursed fox from Bloomer's land.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104