Curse

//kɜːs//

Synonyms for "curse" (383 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Strong matches (115)

Noun(32 words)

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flying the red flag foul word four-letter word friend grandma george granny granny grunts have one's moons have the painters in have the rag on high tide holy week

charm commination condemn confound corrupt courses cross crown of thorns crucify crushing burden curse and swear cuss cuss word damage damn damnation damning darn death defile

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Verb(8 words)

comminate curse like a pagan curse like a sailor curse like a trooper eff and blind eff and jeff ensorcell excommunicate

Related words (191)

Noun(68 words)

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impair imprecate indian sign infect infliction injure irritation jinx jonah load magic spell malevolent influence malocchio maltreat menace menses menstrual discharge menstruation misery misfortune

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Verb(11 words)

maledict maleficiate shaft swear like a cutter swear like a pagan swear like a sailor swear like a trooper turn the air blue unchurch vilify wreak

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

32 entries

abuse affliction arouse blackguard bring up call down call forth charm clapperclaw conjure conjure up denouncement denunciation evoke exclude express

Showing 16 of 32 words.

Antonyms

4 entries

bless blessing compliment

Synonyms

7 entries

bane excommunicate execration hex imprecation malediction swear

dbpedia genre

1 entries

hip hop music

derived

46 entries

Assad curse Assad must go curse Corsican curse Curselax Ondine's curse Paterson's curse Patterson's curse Undine's curse Zelenskyy curse a blessing and a curse accurse becurse better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness blurse commentator's curse countercurse

Showing 16 of 46 words.

has context

2 entries

derogatory slang

is a

3 entries

affliction musical artist profanity

manner of

3 entries

abuse express raise

related to

25 entries

bad bad language bad magic bane detriment epithet expletive foul foul language hex hindrance imprecation inappropriate language magic menses

Showing 16 of 25 words.

similar

2 entries

blaspheme excommunicate

Translations

595 translations across 117 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

ацәҳара noun (vulgar epithet)

Aghwan

1 entries

𐕣𐔴𐕔𐔴𐔼𐕅𐔴𐕔𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 verb (to place a curse upon)

Albanian

3 entries

nëmë noun (supernatural detriment)
mallkoj verb (to place a curse upon)
nëm verb (to place a curse upon)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

κατάρα noun (supernatural detriment)
κατάρα noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
ἀρά noun (supernatural detriment)
ἀρά noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Ao

1 entries

atakatem (Chungli) verb (to place a curse upon)

Arabic

4 entries

لَعْنَة noun (supernatural detriment)
لَعْنَة noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
نِقْمَة noun (cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune)
سَبَّ verb (to use offensive language)

Armenian

4 entries

անեծք noun (supernatural detriment)
հայհոյանք noun (vulgar epithet)
անիծել verb (to place a curse upon)
հայհոյել verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Aromanian

1 entries

blastim verb (to place a curse upon)

Awadhi

2 entries

साप noun (supernatural detriment)
साप noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

bəddua noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
lənət noun (supernatural detriment)
qarğış noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
söyüş noun (vulgar epithet)

Basque

1 entries

arnegu noun (vulgar epithet)

Belarusian

4 entries

ла́янка noun (vulgar epithet)
мацю́к noun (vulgar epithet)
пракля́цце noun (supernatural detriment)
пракля́цце noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Bengali

1 entries

অভিশাপ noun (supernatural detriment)

Breton

1 entries

mallozh noun (supernatural detriment)

Bulgarian

4 entries

кле́тва noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
прокля́тие noun (supernatural detriment)
псувня́ noun (vulgar epithet)
ругатня́ noun (vulgar epithet)

Catalan

4 entries

maledicció noun (supernatural detriment)
paraulota noun (vulgar epithet)
maleir verb (to place a curse upon)
maleir verb (to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

جوێن noun (supernatural detriment)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

詛咒 /诅咒 noun (supernatural detriment)
講粗口 /讲粗口 verb (to use offensive language)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

惡語 /恶语 noun (vulgar epithet)
詛咒 /诅咒 noun (supernatural detriment)
詛咒 /诅咒 noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
髒話 /脏话 noun (vulgar epithet)

Church Slavic

1 entries

клѧти verb (to place a curse upon)

Cornish

2 entries

molleth noun (supernatural detriment)
molethi verb (to place a curse upon)

Czech

4 entries

kletba noun (supernatural detriment)
nadávka noun (vulgar epithet)
prokletí noun (supernatural detriment)
rouhání noun (vulgar epithet)

Danish

4 entries

bandeord noun (vulgar epithet)
forbandelse noun (supernatural detriment)
bande verb (to use offensive language)
forbande verb (to place a curse upon)

Dutch

4 entries

verwensing noun (supernatural detriment)
vloek noun (supernatural detriment)
vloek noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
beheksen verb (to place a curse upon)

Esperanto

4 entries

malbeno noun (supernatural detriment)
malbeno noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
sakraĵo noun (vulgar epithet)
sakro noun (vulgar epithet)

Estonian

1 entries

needus noun (supernatural detriment)

Finnish

4 entries

kirous noun (supernatural detriment)
kirous noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
kirous noun (vulgar epithet)
menkat noun (woman's monthly period)

French

4 entries

juron noun (vulgar epithet)
malédiction noun (supernatural detriment)
malédiction noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
mauvais sort noun (supernatural detriment)

Friulian

2 entries

maledî verb (to place a curse upon)
maludî verb (to place a curse upon)

Galician

4 entries

estocación noun (supernatural detriment)
malafada noun (supernatural detriment)
maldizón noun (supernatural detriment)
perdamá noun (supernatural detriment)

Georgian

4 entries

წყევლა noun (supernatural detriment)
გინება verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
გინება verb (to use offensive language)
დაწყევლა verb (to place a curse upon)

German

4 entries

Fluch noun (supernatural detriment)
Fluch noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
Fluch noun (vulgar epithet)
Verdammnis noun (supernatural detriment)

Gothic

2 entries

𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to use offensive language)

Greek

4 entries

κατάρα noun (supernatural detriment)
κατάρα noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
κατάρα noun (vulgar epithet)
αναθεματίζω verb (to place a curse upon)

Hebrew

4 entries

קְלָלָה noun (supernatural detriment)
קְלָלָה noun (vulgar epithet)
קילל verb (to place a curse upon)
קילל verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Hindi

4 entries

अभिशाप noun (supernatural detriment)
अभिशाप noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
गाली noun (vulgar epithet)
फटकार noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Hungarian

4 entries

káromkodás noun (vulgar epithet)
átok noun (supernatural detriment)
megátkoz verb (to place a curse upon)
átkoz verb (to place a curse upon)

Icelandic

4 entries

bölvun noun (supernatural detriment)
blóta verb (to use offensive language)
bölva verb (to place a curse upon)
bölva verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Indonesian

1 entries

kutuk verb (to place a curse upon)

Ingrian

4 entries

keroella verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
keroella verb (to use offensive language)
kerota verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
manaella verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Interlingua

4 entries

malediction noun (supernatural detriment)
malediction noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
blasphemar verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
blasphemar verb (to use offensive language)

Irish

4 entries

eascaine noun (vulgar epithet)
mallacht noun (supernatural detriment)
mionn mór noun (vulgar epithet)
oirbhire noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Istriot

1 entries

bas'ciamà verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Italian

4 entries

imprecazione noun (vulgar epithet)
maledizione noun (supernatural detriment)
maleficio noun (supernatural detriment)
bestemmiare verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Japanese

4 entries

卑語 noun (vulgar epithet)
呪い noun (supernatural detriment)
呪縛 noun (supernatural detriment)
悪口 noun (vulgar epithet)

Javanese

1 entries

sepata noun (supernatural detriment)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

odjada noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

къаргъаргъа verb (to place a curse upon)

Kazakh

4 entries

қарғыс noun (supernatural detriment)
лағынеттеу verb (to place a curse upon)
қарғап-сілеу verb (to place a curse upon)
қарғау verb (to place a curse upon)

Konkani

1 entries

सोव्चे verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Korean

4 entries

비어 noun (vulgar epithet)
욕설 noun (vulgar epithet)
저주 noun (supernatural detriment)
저주 noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

аалат noun (supernatural detriment)
аалат noun (vulgar epithet)
каргыш noun (supernatural detriment)
каргап-шилөө verb (to place a curse upon)

Latin

4 entries

exsecratio noun (supernatural detriment)
exsecratio noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
imprecātiō noun (supernatural detriment)
maledictio noun (vulgar epithet)

Latvian

1 entries

lāsts noun (supernatural detriment)

Lithuanian

2 entries

prakeikimas noun (supernatural detriment)
prakeiksmas noun (supernatural detriment)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

klěś verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Macedonian

4 entries

кле́тва noun (supernatural detriment)
кле́тва noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
про́клетство noun (supernatural detriment)
пцо́вка noun (vulgar epithet)

Malagasy

2 entries

loza noun (supernatural detriment)
ozona noun (supernatural detriment)

Malay

3 entries

kutuk noun (supernatural detriment)
laknat noun (supernatural detriment)
sumpahan noun (supernatural detriment)

Malayalam

4 entries

പ്രാക്ക് noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
ശാപം noun (supernatural detriment)
ശാപം noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
പിരാകുക verb (to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon)

Maltese

1 entries

saħta noun (supernatural detriment)

Manx

1 entries

mollaght noun (supernatural detriment)

Marathi

4 entries

शाप noun (supernatural detriment)
शाप noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
शिवी noun (vulgar epithet)
शिवी देणे verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Middle English

2 entries

malisoun noun (supernatural detriment)
malisoun noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Mongolian

4 entries

хараал noun (supernatural detriment)
ᠬᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠯ noun (supernatural detriment)
хараал хийх verb (to place a curse upon)
ᠬᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠯ ᠬᠢᠬᠦ verb (to place a curse upon)

Māori

4 entries

kanga verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
kangakanga verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
kohukohu verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
oraora verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Nahuatl

1 entries

uexcaitoa noun (supernatural detriment)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

ulaâni verb (to place a curse upon)

Nogai

1 entries

наьлет noun (supernatural detriment)

North Frisian

1 entries

Flök noun (supernatural detriment)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

lanet noun (supernatural detriment)
lanet noun (vulgar epithet)
nalet noun (supernatural detriment)
nalet noun (vulgar epithet)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

banneord noun (vulgar epithet)
ed noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
ed noun (vulgar epithet)
forbannelse noun (supernatural detriment)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries

bannord noun (vulgar epithet)
eid noun (vulgar epithet)
forbanne verb (to place a curse upon)

Old English

4 entries

wierġnes noun (supernatural detriment)
wierġnes noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
wierġan verb (to place a curse upon)
wierġan verb (to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon)

Old Irish

1 entries

do·beir mallachta for verb (to place a curse upon)

Old Norse

1 entries

bǫlva verb (to place a curse upon)

Oromo

1 entries

abaaruu verb (to place a curse upon)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

قارش noun (supernatural detriment)

Persian

4 entries

دُشْنام noun (vulgar epithet)
فُحْش noun (vulgar epithet)
لَعْنَت noun (supernatural detriment)
لَعْنَت noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Plautdietsch

3 entries

Fluch noun (supernatural detriment)
Fluch noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
flieekjen verb (to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon)

Polish

4 entries

klątwa noun (supernatural detriment)
klątwa noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
okres noun (woman's monthly period)
przekleństwo noun (supernatural detriment)

Portuguese

4 entries

maldição noun (supernatural detriment)
maldição noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
obscenidade noun (vulgar epithet)
palavra de baixo calão noun (vulgar epithet)

Romanian

4 entries

blestem noun (supernatural detriment)
cuvânt urât noun (vulgar epithet)
maledicție noun (supernatural detriment)
înjurătură noun (vulgar epithet)

Romansch

4 entries

blasfemar verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
blastemar verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
blastmer verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
diavlar verb (to utter a vulgar curse)

Russian

4 entries

ана́фема noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
брань noun (vulgar epithet)
мат noun (vulgar epithet)
матерщи́на noun (vulgar epithet)

Sanskrit

2 entries

शाप noun (supernatural detriment)
शपति verb (to place a curse upon)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

klȇtva noun (supernatural detriment)
proklétstvo noun (supernatural detriment)
psȏvka noun (vulgar epithet)
кле̑тва noun (supernatural detriment)

Sicilian

4 entries

malanova noun (supernatural detriment)
maldiri verb (to place a curse upon)
malidiri verb (to place a curse upon)
maridiri verb (to place a curse upon)

Slovak

4 entries

kliatba noun (supernatural detriment)
nadávka noun (vulgar epithet)
prekliatie noun (supernatural detriment)
kliať verb (to place a curse upon)

Slovene

3 entries

kletev noun (supernatural detriment)
prekletstvo noun (supernatural detriment)
preklinjati verb (to place a curse upon)

Southern Altai

3 entries

каргыш noun (supernatural detriment)
каргыш noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
каргаар verb (to place a curse upon)

Spanish

4 entries

mala palabra noun (vulgar epithet)
maldición noun (supernatural detriment)
maldición noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
maldición noun (cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune)

Sumerian

1 entries

𒂊𒍣𒊒 noun (supernatural detriment)

Swahili

3 entries

laana noun (supernatural detriment)
kulaani verb (to place a curse upon)
kulaani verb (to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon)

Swedish

4 entries

förbannelse noun (supernatural detriment)
svordom noun (vulgar epithet)
förbanna verb (to place a curse upon)
fördöma verb (to place a curse upon)

Tagalog

1 entries

sumpa noun (supernatural detriment)

Tajik

4 entries

дашном noun (vulgar epithet)
лаънат noun (supernatural detriment)
лаънат noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
нафрин noun (supernatural detriment)

Tamil

2 entries

சாபம் noun (supernatural detriment)
சபி verb (to place a curse upon)

Tarifit

1 entries

amutten noun (supernatural detriment)

Tatar

1 entries

ләгънәт noun (supernatural detriment)

Telugu

3 entries

తిట్టు noun (vulgar epithet)
శాపం noun (supernatural detriment)
శపించు verb (to place a curse upon)

Thai

4 entries

คนหยาบคาย noun (vulgar epithet)
คำสาป noun (supernatural detriment)
สาป noun (supernatural detriment)
สบถ verb (to use offensive language)

Tocharian B

2 entries

śāp noun (supernatural detriment)
śāp noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Turkish

4 entries

ah noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
beddua noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
bela noun (supernatural detriment)
ilenme noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Tày

2 entries

bjắc verb (to use offensive language)
bjắc bjoi verb (to use offensive language)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ла́йка noun (vulgar epithet)
матю́к noun (vulgar epithet)
прокля́ття noun (supernatural detriment)
прокля́ття noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Urdu

4 entries

بَد دُعا noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
لَعْنَت noun (supernatural detriment)
لَعْنَت noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
لعنت بھیجنا verb (to place a curse upon)

Uyghur

2 entries

لەنەت noun (supernatural detriment)
لەنەت ئوقۇماق verb (to place a curse upon)

Uzbek

4 entries

haqorat noun (vulgar epithet)
laʻnat noun (supernatural detriment)
laʼnat noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
soʻkish noun (vulgar epithet)

Vietnamese

4 entries

lời nguyền noun (supernatural detriment)
lời nguyền noun (cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune)
ác chú noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
chửi verb (to use offensive language)

Volapük

3 entries

mifätot noun (supernatural detriment)
blasfämön verb (to utter a vulgar curse)
blasfämön verb (to use offensive language)

Walloon

1 entries

mådi verb (to place a curse upon)

Welsh

4 entries

melltith noun (supernatural detriment)
melltith noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
rheg noun (vulgar epithet)
melltithio verb (to place a curse upon)

White Hmong

1 entries

cem verb (to place a curse upon)

Yiddish

2 entries

קללה noun (supernatural detriment)
שילטן verb (to place a curse upon)

Yoruba

2 entries

ègún noun (supernatural detriment)
èpè noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)

Zazaki

4 entries

bela noun (supernatural detriment)
neng noun (vulgar epithet)
zewt noun (prayer that harm may befall someone)
la'net kerden verb (to place a curse upon)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Nor was he ever known to curse unless against the government.

Source: tatoeba (32572)

The family seemed to be under a curse.

Source: tatoeba (49316)

The ecologist warned us that petroleum was not merely a blessing but also a curse.

Source: tatoeba (272256)

He muttered a curse.

Source: tatoeba (292340)

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Curse

Synonyms for "curse" (383 found)

Closest matches (77)

Strong matches (115)

Related words (191)

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Translations

Abkhaz

Aghwan

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Ao

Arabic

Armenian

Aromanian

Awadhi

Azerbaijani

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Breton

Bulgarian

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Ingrian

Interlingua

Irish

Istriot

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kabuverdianu

Karachay-Balkar

Kazakh

Konkani

Korean

Kyrgyz

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Lower Sorbian

Macedonian

Malagasy

Malay

Malayalam

Maltese

Manx

Marathi