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cursed

adjectiveverbadverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɜːsɪd//
  • United Kingdom//kɜːst//
  • United States//ˈkɝsɪd//
  • United States//kɝst//
  • United States/[ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d]/
  • United States/[kʰɝst]/

Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

adjective

  1. 1

    Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

  2. 2

    obsoleteShrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

    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. 3

    hateful; damnable; accursed

    That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

  4. 4

    Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.

    “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.”

Etymology

From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cursesimple past and past participle of curse

adverb

  1. 1

    datedDamnably; awfully.

    I intended handing you the crown, but when I got here and realized how cursed unpleasant it might be I funked it. I decided to send the damned thing back by post without a word.

Forms

comparative
curseder, more cursed
superlative
cursedest, most cursed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).