Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. So wicked and detestable as to deserve to be cursed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being under a curse; blasted by a curse; afflicted; vexed; tormented.
- Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable; wicked.
- Execrable; wretched: used as a hyperbolical expletive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Something that has some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- adj. obsolete Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of curse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
- adj. deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
Examples
“The reduced vocabulary of my childhood has given back a word, a term cursed for decades.”
“I believe he would have pardoned any thing in me more readily than poetry; which he called a cursed, sneaking, puling, housekeeping employment, the bane of all true manhood.”
“Indeed, I believe he would have pardoned anything in me more readily than poetry; which he called a cursed, sneaking, puling, housekeeping employment, the bane of all true manhood.”
“Nowhere is the mention that Senator Levin "cursed" (as the headline said) or did any swearing.”
“Or for the Redskins to be good enough that they're never again cursed with that booth.”
“If you're working like a normal person or staying in like a smart person today, it's safe to say it's worth some dollars to you to pick up gifts without getting your ribs broken or your name cursed by a hard-elbowed granny fierce.”
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“‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you;”
“Just the trembly way he sings the word cursed is a killer.”
“But the word cursed was used, and it meant cursed as in plagued, as in despised, as in wicked, as in doomed.”
“NEW YORK It was intended to reunite World Series greats and goats, all of whom became part of Big Apple baseball lore by being amazin ', cursed or simply playing at different ends of the subway.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cursed’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
baptism, almighty, Balaam, altar, anoint, archangel, apostle, advent, writings, wonders, timbrel, thorns and 341 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Krst List
Krst words--etymology, historically, phonetically, etc.
I've mostly avoided people names (Christopher, etc), but Lampbane has a great list of them here.krst, christ, chi-rho, karast, kristos, cristos, crest, crust, cursed, khristós, crist, krista and 17 more...
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Devilish
devil, demon, diabolical, deviltry, hell, devilment, devilry, hellish, infernal, hellborn, devil dance, demonic and 20 more...
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