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Definition: Accurst |
AccurstAdjective1. Under a curse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accurst" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: AccurstSynonyms: accursed (adj), maledict (adj). (additional references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Christopher Marlowe | Accurst be he that first invented war. |
Virgil | O accurst craving for gold! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "accurst"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, 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 (accursed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damning, darn, unblessed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, 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, accursed, detestable, hateful, obnoxious, odious), прокълнат (accursed, cursed, damned), проклет (accursed, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked). (various references) | |
Czech | zlořeèený (accursed, damned), prokletý (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, execrable, fated, maledictory, plaguy). (various references) | |
Dutch | verdoemd (accursed), gehaat (accursed, hated). (various references) | |
German | verfluchten. (various references) | |
Greek | καταραμένοσ (blasted, blessed, confounded, cursed, damned, darn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | átokkal sújtott. (various references) | |
Italian | maledetto (accursed, blasted, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, deuced, devilishly, hexes). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accurstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abominável (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreary, foul, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, nefarious, odious), maldito (accursed, bally, blasted, cursed, cussed, darned, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed), execrável (accursed, damnable, execrable, nefarious, odious). (various references) | |
Russian | ненавистный (hated, hateful, invidious, odious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlosretan (accursed, ill fated), proklet (accursed, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, 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 | odioso (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, despiteful, detestable, hated, hateful, invidious, obnoxious, odious, poisonous), maldito (accursed, beastly, blankety, blanky, blasted, blessed, blest, blinking, cursed, damn, damned, darn, dratted, hexes, pesky, ruddy), detestable (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, damnable, detestable, hateful, horrible, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, odious, terrible, vile), condenado (accursed, condemned, convicted, cotton-picking, damned, darned, doom, doomed, fated, indicted, stricken). (various references) | |
Swedish | förbannad (accursed, bloody, cotton-picking, cursed, damned, infernal). (various references) | |
Turkish | uğursuz (accursed, baleful, black, bloody, demon, dire, evil, fateful, hoodoo, ill fated, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky, untoward), lanetli (accursed, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, dratted, effing), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, 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, accursed, 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 (accursed), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, 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 (accursed, cussed, hateable, hateful, invidious, odious), проклятий (accursed, bloody, blushing, cursed, cussed, damned, infernal, something). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phận rủi (accursed), phận hẩm hiu phiền toái (accursed), khó chịu (accursed, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), ghê tởm xấu số (accursed), đáng nguyền rủa (accursed, anathematic, anathematical, blasted, cursedly), đáng ghét (accursed, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, loathly, loathsome, obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cactus. | |
-2 letters: arcus, carts, crust, curst, scart, scaur, scuta, sutra. | |
-3 letters: acts, arcs, arts, cars, cart, cast, cats, crus, curs, curt, cuts, rats, rust, ruts, scar, scat, scut, star, sura, tars, taus, tsar, ursa, utas. | |
-4 letters: act, arc, ars, art, car, cat, cur, cut, ras, rat, rut, sac, sat, sau, tar, tas, tau, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: accouters, accoutres, coruscant, coruscate, crustacea, subarctic. | |
+3 letters: accusatory, backcourts, cartouches, circulates, cocurators, coruscated, coruscates, crustacean, practicums, scoutcraft, subarctics. | |
+4 letters: accruements, autocracies, buccinators, calculators, caricatures, cataractous, circulators, coruscating, coruscation, cotransduce, counteracts, crustaceans, crustaceous, eucharistic, excruciates, inculcators, nutcrackers, obscurantic, reluctances, scoutcrafts, spectacular, subcontract, subcortical, subcritical. | |
+5 letters: acculturates, accumulators, accurateness, acupunctures, articulacies, caricaturist, charcuteries, circulations, circumstance, coadjutrices, contractures, coruscations, cosurfactant, cotransduced, cotransduces, flocculators, plutocracies, recalculates, recirculates, reluctancies, secularistic, spectaculars, subantarctic, subcontracts, translucence, translucency. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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