cursed

See also: cursèd

English

Etymology

From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (UK) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsɪd/, /kɜːst/
• (US) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA^(key): /ˈkɝsɪd/, /kɝst/, [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d], [kʰɝst]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪd, -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

Verb

• (UK) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /kɜːst/
• (US) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /kɝst/, [kʰɝst]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

Adjective

cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)

1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
2. (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
   • 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]:

     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.

3. hateful; damnable; accursed

   That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

5. (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.

   Coordinate term: blursed

   • 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

• cursèd, curséd (poetic)
• curst (archaic)

Synonyms

• (having some sort of divine harm): accursed, cussed (US slang); see also Thesaurus:doomed
• (shrewish): harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike
• (unsettling): bizarre, cringe, macabre

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “having some sort of divine harm”): blessed

Derived terms

• blursed
• cursedly
• cursedness
• uncursed

Translations

having some sort of divine harm

Arabic: مَلْعُون (malʕūn), لَعِين (laʕīn) Bulgarian: прокълнат (bg) (prokǎlnat) Cornish: molothek Danish: forbandet Dutch: vervloekt (nl) Finnish: kirottu (fi) French: maudit (fr) German: verflucht (de), verwünscht (de) Greek: καταραμένος (el) (kataraménos) Ancient: κατάρατος (katáratos) Hebrew: מקולל (mequlal), אָרוּר (he) (arúr) Hungarian: átkozott (hu), elátkozott (hu) Italian: maledetto (it) Japanese: 呪われた (のろわれた, norowareta) Korean: 저주받은 (jeojubadeun) Macedonian: клет (klet) Polish: przeklęty (pl) Portuguese: amaldiçoado (pt), maldito (pt) Romanian: blestemat (ro) Russian: проклятый (ru) (prokljatyj) Sanskrit: अवशप्त (sa) (avaśapta) Serbo-Croatian: proklet (sh) Spanish: maldito (es), imprecado (es), anatematizado (es) Swahili: laanifu Swedish: förbannad (sv) Turkish: lanetli (tr) Ukrainian: зловредний (zlovrednyj), проклятий (prokljatyj)

See also

• haunted

Verb

cursed

1. simple past and past participle of curse

Alternative forms

• curst (archaic)

Anagrams

• Ducres, crudes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• corsed, cursid, curst

Etymology

From cursen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkursɛd/, /-id/

Adjective

cursed

1. accursed

Descendants

• English: cursed
• Yola: cursed

References

• “cursed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English cursed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊrst/

Adjective

cursed

1. 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