cursed

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

• (UK) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːsɪd/, /kɜːst/
• (US) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA^(key): /ˈkɝsɪd/, /kɝst/, [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d], [kʰɝst]

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪd, -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

cursed (comparative more cursed, superlative most 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!

• cursèd, curséd (poetic)

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

• (having some sort of divine harm): blessed

• cursedly
• cursedness

• (UK) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /kɜːst/
• (US) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /kɝst/, [kʰɝst]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

cursed

1. simple past tense and past participle of curse

• curst (archaic)

• crudes