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Cursed

/kɜːst/

To place a curse upon (a person or object).

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📖 Definitions of "Cursed"

verb

1
To place a curse upon (a person or object).
2
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
3
To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
4
To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

adjective

1
Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
2
Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
3
Hateful; damnable; accursed
"That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!"
4
Frightening or unsettling.

🔄 Synonyms of "Cursed"

23 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
infernalnoun	Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
execrable	Hateful, disgusting.
maledictverb	accursed, cursed
lost	In an unknown location; unable to be found.
everlastingnoun	Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
damnverb	(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
blessednoun	Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
curstverb	Archaic spelling of cursed, simple past and past participle of curse.
blasted	(slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
doomed	Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
deuced	(euphemistic, dated) Damned.
accursed	(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
accurst	Archaic spelling of accursed. [(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.]
damned	(mildly vulgar) Very.
damnable	Deserving of damnation; very bad.
darned	(euphemistic) A minced oath for damned, used to express contempt, exasperation, consternation, etc. towards someone or something.
blameverb	(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
goddamnoun	(Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.
goddamned	(often offensive) Used as an intensifier expressing anger.
unredeemed	(of a person) Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.
unsaved	(computing) Not saved (stored in a file).
blamed	euphemism of damned (intensifier)
goddamnnoun	(vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.

↔️ Antonyms of "Cursed"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
blessednoun	Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
blestverb	Archaic spelling of blessed.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cursed"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
damnable	Deserving of damnation; very bad.
maledictverb	To curse
curstverb	Archaic spelling of cursed, simple past and past participle of curse.
accursed	(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
damned	(mildly vulgar) Very.
execrable	Hateful, disgusting.
darned	(euphemistic) A minced oath for damned, used to express contempt, exasperation, consternation, etc. towards someone or something.
goddamned	(often offensive) Used as an intensifier expressing anger.
goddamnnoun	(vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.
deuced	(euphemistic, dated) Damned.
blamed	euphemism of damned (intensifier)
damnverb	To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
lost	In an unknown location; unable to be found.
doomed	Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
blameverb	(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
unredeemed	(of a person) Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.
accurst	Archaic spelling of accursed. [(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.]
unsaved	(computing) Not saved (stored in a file).
everlastingnoun	Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
blasted	(slang) Intoxicated, drunk.