cursed

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Pronunciation

• (British) enPR kûrsʹĭd, IPA: /ˈkɜːsɪd/, /kɜːst/
• (America) enPR kûrsʹĭd, IPA: /ˈkɝsɪd/, /kɝst/, [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d], [kʰɝst]

Adjective

cursed

1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
2. (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:

     LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

     ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst.

     BEATRICE. Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.

3. hateful; damnable; accursed

   That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

4. (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling.
   • 2016, Brian Feldman, "What Makes a Cursed Image? ↗", New York Magazine, 31 October 2016:

     “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”

Synonyms

• (having some sort of divine harm) accursed, cussed (US slang); see also Thesaurus:doomed
• (shrewish) harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike

Antonyms

• (having some sort of divine harm) blessed

Translations

• French: maudit, maudite
• German: verflucht, verwünscht
• Italian: maledetto, maledetta
• Portuguese: amaldiçoado, amaldiçoada, maldito, maldita
• Russian: проклятый
• Spanish: maldito, maldita

Pronunciation 2

• (British) enPR: kûrst, IPA: /kɜːst/
• (America) enPR: kûrst, IPA: /kɝst/, [kʰɝst]

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of curse

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