cursed
See also: cursèd
English
Alternative forms
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): (file) - 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)
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- Synonyms: accursed, cussed (dated); bewitched, spellbound; see also Thesaurus:doomed, Thesaurus:enchanted
- Antonym: blessed
- (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.
- hateful; damnable; accursed
- Synonyms: bloody, ever-loving; see also Thesaurus:damned
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
- 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.”
Derived terms
Translations
having some sort of divine harm
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See also
Verb
cursed
- simple past and past participle of curse
Alternative forms
- curst (archaic)
Adverb
cursed (not comparable)
- (slang, dated) Damnably; awfully.
- 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
- I intended handing you the crown, but when I got here and realized how cursed unpleasant it might be I funked it. I decided to send the damned thing back by post without a word.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- corsed, cursid, curst
Etymology
From cursen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkursɛd/, /-id/
Adjective
cursed
Descendants
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
- 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