cursed
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See also: cursèd
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- (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
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- (colloquial, of images, communication, or behavior) Frightening or unsettling; humorously portrayed as such.
- 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.”
Alternative forms
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (having some sort of divine harm): accursed, cussed (US slang); see also Thesaurus:doomed
- (shrewish): harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike
- (unsettling): bizarre, cringe, macabre
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “having some sort of divine harm”): blessed
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having some sort of divine harm
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]cursed
- simple past and past participle of curse
Alternative forms
[edit]- curst (archaic)
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cursen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cursed
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cursed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cursed.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
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