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English
Etymology
From Middle English cursful, equivalent to curse + -ful.
Adjective
curseful (comparative more curseful, superlative most curseful)
- (archaic) horrendous, horrific
1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons:They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.
1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper:Don't name the curseful place.