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Definition: Accursed |
AccursedAdjective1. Under a curse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accursed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: AccursedSynonyms: accurst (adj), maledict (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Evil, wrong; depraved; shocking; reprehensible; (disapprove). hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic; (malevolent). |
Pain | Unfortunate; (hapless); to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. |
Vice | Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Accursed |
| English words defined with "accursed": Anathematization ♦ Siegfried, Sigurd ♦ Unblest. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "accursed": Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions ♦ Jettatura. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness (The Phantom of the Opera; writing credit: Gaston Leroux) | |
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 | Cackle; cackling; evil; sinister; Mephistophelean; accursed; devil; cursed; damnable; damned; demoniac; demonic; detestable; diabolic; diabolical; execrable; fiendish; hellborn; hellish; hell; infernal; iniquitous; nefarious; satanic; serpentine; unhallow. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each accursed race has deposited its stratum, each suffering has dropped its stone, each heart has given its pebble |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed |
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| "Accursed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accursed" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
accursed land | 10 |
mask of the accursed | 4 |
the accursed | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accursed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury), i mallkuar (accurst, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damning, darn, unblessed). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريه (abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ملعون (abominable, cursed, damn, damned, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, stupid, wicked), لعين (abominable, bloody, cursed, damned, evil, execrable, wicked), بغيض (abominable, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), омразен (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, detestable, hateful, obnoxious, odious), прокълнат (accurst, cursed, damned), проклет (accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 被诅''. (various references) | |
Czech | zlořeèený (accurst, damned), prokletý (accurst, confounded, cursed, damnable, execrable, fated, maledictory, plaguy). (various references) | |
Dutch | verdoemd (accurst), gehaat (accurst, hated). (various references) | |
French | satané, sapristi, maudit, exécrable. (various references) | |
German | verwünscht (cursed, execrates), verflucht (bloody, blooming, confounded, confoundedly, cursed, curses, cussed, damn, damned, hexes, infernal). (various references) | |
Greek | κατηραμένοσ, αθεόφοβοσ (rascal, ungodly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ארור (blasted, cursed, damned). (various references) | |
Hungarian | átkozott (bally, bang, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, cursed, curst, damn, damned, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, goddamn, perishing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terkutuk, kualat (damned, struck down by a calamity). (various references) | |
Italian | maledetto (accurst, blasted, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, deuced, devilishly, hexes). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 罰"たり (cursed, damned). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばちあたり (cursed, damned). (various references) | |
Manx | mollaghtagh (blasphemous, damnable, damned, maledictory), custey (cursed, damnable), cursit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accurseday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amaldiçoado (cursed, darned), abominável (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreary, foul, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, nefarious, odious), odioso (abject, damnable, hateful, heinous, invidious, loathful, loathsome, nasty, odious, rancorous), maldito (accurst, bally, blasted, cursed, cussed, darned, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed), execrável (accurst, damnable, execrable, nefarious, odious), detestável (damned, detestable, invidious, loathful, loathsome, nasty, odious, rancid). (various references) | |
Romanian | afurisit (bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel), urgisit (cursed), scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous, vile), osândit (convict, convicted, damned, doomed, sentenced), necurat (cursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious, unclean), jurat (cursed, damned, juror, juryman, sworn), detestabil (detestable, execrable, foul, hateful, loathsome, odious, odiously), blestemat (confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), împeliţat. (various references) | |
Russian | злополучный (hapless, ill fated, ill-fated, unblessed), проклятый (bloody, cursed, curst, darn, darned, doggone, dratted, flipping, frigging), проклинать проклятый (cursed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlosretan (accurst, ill fated), proklet (accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | maldito (accurst, beastly, blankety, blanky, blasted, blessed, blest, blinking, cursed, damn, damned, darn, dratted, hexes, pesky, ruddy). (various references) | |
Swedish | förbannad (accurst, bloody, cotton-picking, cursed, damned, infernal). (various references) | |
Turkish | uğursuz (accurst, baleful, black, bloody, demon, dire, evil, fateful, hoodoo, ill fated, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky, untoward), melun (cursed, effing, unblessed), lanetli (accurst, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, dratted, effing), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осоружний (accurst), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), ненависний (accurst, cussed, hateable, hateful, invidious, odious), проклятий (accurst, bloody, blushing, cursed, cussed, damned, infernal, something). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phận rủi (accurst), phận hẩm hiu phiền toái (accurst), khó chịu (accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), ghê tởm xấu số (accurst), đáng nguyền rủa (accurst, anathematic, anathematical, blasted, cursedly), đáng ghét (accurst, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, loathly, loathsome, obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgymun (excommunicate), melltigedig (cursed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominata, abominatam, abominati, abominatos, abominatum, abominatus, devota, maleficus, sacer, sacra, sacrae, sacram, sacras, sacri, sacris, sacro, sacrorum, scelerata, scelerate, sceleratiora, sceleratis, sceleratius, sceleste, scelesti, scelestis, scelestius, scelestos, scelestum, scelestus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hucomhn gar autoV egw anaqema einai apo tou cristou uper twn adelfwn mou twn suggenwn mou kata sarka |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Optabam enim ipse ego anathema esse a Christo pro fratribus meis qui sunt cognati mei secundum carnem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forþy ic sceolde wyscan þæt ic sylfe wære cis and Cristi gesundred for minra broðra hæle, þæra mines agenan cynnes, |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For Y my silf desiride to be departid fro Crist for my britheren, that ben my cosyns aftir the fleisch, that ben men of Israel; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For I have wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren and my kynsmen as pertayninge to the flesshe |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh: |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Kay arang ko pa gani matinguha ang akong pagkatinunglo ug pagkasinalikway gikan kang Cristo alang sa kaayohan sa akong mga igsoon nga ako rang mga paryenti sa pagkatawo. |
| Croatian | Da, htio bih ja sam proklet biti, odvojen od Krista, za braæu svoju, sunarodnjake svoje po tijelu. |
| Danish | Thi jeg kunde ønske selv at være bandlyst fra Kristus til Bedste for mine Brødre, mine Frænder efter Kødet, |
| Dutch | Want ik zou zelf wel wensen verbannen te zijn van Christus, voor mijn broederen, die mijn maagschap zijn naar het vlees; |
| Finnish | Sillä minä soisin itse olevani kirottu pois Kristuksesta veljieni hyväksi, jotka ovat minun sukulaisiani lihan puolesta, |
| French | Car je voudrais moi-même être anathème et séparé de Christ pour mes frères, mes parents selon la chair, |
| German | Ich habe gewünscht, verbannt zu sein von Christo für meine Brüder, die meine Gefreundeten sind nach dem Fleisch; |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen ta pito wè m' tonbe anba madichon Bondye, mwen ta pito pèdi renmen Kris la gen pou mwen an si sa te ka sèvi pou byen frè m' yo, moun menm ras avè mwen yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | karena saudara-saudara saya yang sebangsa dengan saya. Sebab untuk mereka, saya sendiri rela dikutuk oleh Allah dan diceraikan dari Kristus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena aku sendiri rela terlaknat dijauhkan daripada Kristus karena saudara-saudaraku, keluargaku yang sedaging sedarah, |
| Italian | Vorrei infatti essere io stesso anatema, separato da Cristo a vantaggio dei miei fratelli, miei consanguinei secondo la carne. |
| Latvian | Es vçlçtos, ka Kristus mani atmestu manu brâïu dçï, kas miesîgi ir mani ciltsbrâïi, |
| Maori | He pai hoki ki ahau me i kanga ahau, me i motuhia i a te Karaiti, he whakaaro ki oku teina, ara ki oku whanaunga o te wahi ki te kikokiko: |
| Norwegian | For jeg vilde ønske at jeg selv var forbannet bort fra Kristus for mine brødre, mine frender efter kjødet, |
| Portuguese | Porque eu mesmo desejaria ser separado de Cristo, por amor de meus irmãos, que são meus parentes segundo a carne; |
| Rumanian | Cqci aproape sq doresc sq fiu eu knsumi anatema, despqryit de Hristos, pentru frayii mei, rudele mele trupewti. |
| Russian | С ЦЕМБМ 'Щ УБН 'ЩФШ ПФМХЮЕООЩН ПФ иТЙУФБ ЪБ 'ТБФШЕЧ НПЙИ, ТП"ОЩИ НОЕ П МПФЙ, |
| Shuar | Wíishuar ainiakui Krístunmaya kanakin yuminnaraintjai nujai Wíishuaran Yáinminiaitkiunka. |
| Spanish | porque desearía yo mismo ser separado de Cristo por el bien de mis hermanos, los que son mis familiares según la carne. |
| Swahili | kwa ajili ya watu wangu, walio damu moja nami! Kama ingekuwa kwa faida yao, ningekuwa radhi kulaaniwa na kutengwa na Kristo. |
| Swedish | Ja, jag skulle önska att jag själv vore förbannad och bortkastad från Kristus, om detta kunde gagna mina bröder, mina fränder efter köttet. |
| Uma | Ane ke ma'ala, ke aku' lau ratotowi pai' ragaa' ngkai Kristus, asala ompi' -ku to Yahudi toera rabahaka ngkai huku' jeko' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accursed": accursedly, accursedness, accursednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Accursed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accerse, accured, accurred, accurrs, accurs, acured. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: accrued, accrues, accused, accuser, crusade. | |
-2 letters: accrue, accuse, cadres, caused, causer, cedars, cercus, cesura, cruces, crudes, cursed, sacred, sauced, saucer, scarce, scared. | |
-3 letters: acred, acres, arced, arcus, aures, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cause, cedar, crude, cruds, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curse, cusec, daces, dares, dears, druse, duces, duras, dures, ecrus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: reaccused. | |
+2 letters: accursedly, coruscated. | |
+3 letters: archduchess, archduchies, cotransduce. | |
+4 letters: accursedness, circularised, coadjutrices, cotransduced, cotransduces, orchidaceous. | |
+5 letters: archduchesses, churchwardens, circumstanced, subcontracted, unconsecrated. | |
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