Accurst

  

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Accurst

Definition: Accurst

Accurst

Adjective

1. 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: Accurst

Synonyms: accursed (adj), maledict (adj). (additional references)

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Familiar Quotations: Accurst

AuthorQuotation

Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Virgil

O accurst craving for gold!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Accurst

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.

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Anagrams: Accurst

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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