cursed
Verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- "The bad witch cursed the child"
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- simple past and past participle of curse
Adjective
- Affected by a curse; wicked or ill-fated.
- deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
- "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"
- "cursed with four daughter"
- "not a cursed drop"
- "his cursed stupidity"
- "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
Adjective Satellite
- in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Adj
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- hateful; damnable; accursed
- Frightening or unsettling; humorously portrayed as such.
Examples
- Finding a CURSED letter tile in Words With Friends often feels like a bad omen for the game.
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Synonyms
anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, blaspheme, curse, curst, cuss, damn, damned, doomed, excommunicate, imprecate, maledict, swear, unchurch, unredeemed, unsaved, accursed, bizarre, cringe, cussed, harpyish, harpylike, macabre, shrewish, shrewlike
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
cursed: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcursed: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cursed: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary