Cursed
adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of curse form-of, participle, past
- 1 Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- 2 Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women). obsolete
"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!"
- 4 Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such. colloquial
"“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.”"
- 1 deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier wordnet
- 2 in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"The family has been cursed with poor health."
Etymology
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
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