cursed
AdjectiveUS[kurst]/kɝst/1 syllable
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier“villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed”“cursed with four daughters”“not a cursed drop”“his cursed stupidity”“I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning”Synonyms: curstOpposite blessedSimilar blasted, damn, cursed with, accursed, damnableSee also lost
- in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell“poor damned souls”Synonyms: damneddoomedunredeemedunsavedOpposite savedSimilar lost
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Translations
Adjective having some sort of divine harm
- Spanish
- maldito
- French
- maudit
- German
- verflucht
- Italian
- maledetto
- Portuguese
- amaldiçoado
- Turkish
- lanetli
- Russian
- прокля́тый prokljátyj
- Arabic
- مَلْعُون malʕūn
- Dutch
- vervloekt
- Polish
- przeklęty
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Curs′ed (k?rs′?d), adjective
Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
Let us fly this cursed place.— John Milton
This cursed quarrel be no more renewed.— John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54