cursed

See also: cursèd

English

Alternative forms

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

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.

   Synonyms: accursed, cussed (dated); bewitched, spellbound; see also Thesaurus:doomed, Thesaurus:enchanted

   Antonym: blessed

2. (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

   Synonyms: harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike

   • 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

   Synonyms: bloody, ever-loving; see also Thesaurus:damned

   That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

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

   Synonyms: bizarre, cringe, macabre

   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.”

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 Greek: 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)

Adverb

cursed (not comparable)

1. (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

• 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