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Definition: Cursed |
CursedAdjective1. Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning". 2. (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cursed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: CursedSynonyms: curst (adj), damned (adj), doomed (adj), unredeemed (adj), unsaved (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: blessed (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). |
Malediction | Adjective: cursing, cursed; Verb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cursed |
| English words defined with "cursed": anathemize, awkwardness ♦ bedamn, beshrew ♦ cumbersomeness, curse, curst ♦ damn ♦ humor, humour ♦ imprecate ♦ Llew Llaw Gyffes ♦ maledict, mood ♦ temper ♦ unready, unwieldiness ♦ Water celery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cursed": Alvina Weeps, Auri ♦ Blasphemy ♦ Curiosity ♦ Henneberg ♦ INGRATE ♦ St. Monday, sycophant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cursed": sacred. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I cursed. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.) And this town is only a cursed place, if ye make it so (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) The Frogurt is also cursed. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Safe? Look at these people. This place is cursed, Peck (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas) | |
Lyrics | Cursed missed opportunities (Clocks; performing artist: COLDPLAY) Feelin' as if I've been cursed (Days Go By; performing artist: DIRTY VEGAS) Damned indecision and cursed pride (She's Out of My Life; performing artist: Michael Jackson) And he stood erect and cursed them (On the Road to Fairfax County; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cursed by His Beauty (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I'm through, you can have those cursed clubs, boy! : I give them to you! they're ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Francis Adams | The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. |
Daniel Defoe | Of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. |
| And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. | |
Edmund Waller | Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. |
Saint Augustine | Cursed is everyone who placeth his hope in man. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | After which I was hunted, hounded, pursued, persecuted, slandered, railed at, spit upon, cursed, proscribed |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They took him under the elbows and lifted him to his feet, and he grumbled and cursed thickly, like a drunken man. |
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Human Rights | Uzbekistan | Local leaders shamed her for bringing Namangani into the world until she tearfully apologized and cursed her son. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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| "Cursed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 75.33% of the time. "Cursed" is used about 381 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 75.33% | 287 | 17,188 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 16.8% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.3% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cursed". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baal-hermon | N/A | Biblical | Possessor of destruction or of a thing cursed |
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Expressions using "cursed": be cursed with ♦ be cursed with smth. ♦ cursed crowfoot ♦ cursed with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cursed": deluge-cursed, witch-cursed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
cursed | 43 |
cursed movie | 12 |
craven cursed wes | 8 |
cursed tape video | 7 |
cursed object | 5 |
america cursed nation sin state united | 4 |
cursed quarters state | 3 |
cursed moon | 3 |
cursed eternity mummy | 3 |
cursed ring video | 3 |
cursed scroll | 3 |
chronicle cursed sword | 2 |
cursed from ring video | 2 |
cursed seven times | 2 |
cursed eternity | 2 |
cursed earth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cursed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i urryer (confounded, foul, hateful, heinous, horrible, invidious, loathful, loathsome), i nëmur, i mallkuar (accursed, accurst, bloody, confounded, cussed, damning, darn, unblessed). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, 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, accursed, damn, damned, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, stupid, wicked), لعين (abominable, accursed, bloody, damned, evil, execrable, wicked), بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, 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 | свадлив (cantankerous, contentious, crabbed, crusty, quarrelsome, rowdy, shrewish, termagant, ugly, vixenish), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, 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), прокълнат (accursed, accurst, damned), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 诅'' (Anathema, Anathemas, Bane, Curse, curses, Cursing, Damn). (various references) | |
Czech | prokletý (accursed, accurst, confounded, damnable, execrable, fated, maledictory, plaguy). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملعون (Cussed, Execrable, Foul, Unblessed, Unblest), رجیم . (various references) | |
French | maudit. (various references) | |
German | verflucht (accursed, bloody, blooming, confounded, confoundedly, curses, cussed, damn, damned, hexes, infernal), verfluchte (accursedly, hexed). (various references) | |
Greek | καταραμένοσ (accurst, blasted, blessed, confounded, damned, darn), εναγής (abominable), επάρατος, αναθεματισμένος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקולל (blasted, damned), מזופת (asphalted, tarred), ארור (accursed, blasted, damned), בזוי (abasement, abashment, abject, contempt, contemptible, deprecation, despicable, despised, despising, ignominius, measly, menial, pitiful, vile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | átkozott (accursed, bally, bang, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, curst, damn, damned, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, goddamn, perishing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keparat (damned, son of bitch!). (various references) | |
Italian | maledetto (accursed, accurst, blasted, bloody, confounded, cussed, damned, deuced, devilishly, hexes). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 罰"たり (accursed, damned). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばちあたり (accursed, damned). (various references) | |
Korean | 주하" (Execrable). (various references) | |
Manx | custey (accursed, damnable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ursedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maldito (accursed, accurst, bally, blasted, cussed, darned, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping), amaldiçoado (accursed, darned). (various references) | |
Romanian | urgisit (accursed), pârdalnic, necurat (accursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious, unclean), jurat (accursed, damned, juror, juryman, sworn), haram, blestemat (accursed, confounded, damnable, damned, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), al naibii (confounded, damned, deuced, perishing, precious), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel). (various references) | |
Russian | отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), окаянный, проклятый (accursed, bloody, curst, darn, darned, doggone, dratted, flipping, frigging), проклинать проклятый (accursed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uklet (haunted), proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate). (various references) | |
Spanish | maldito (accursed, accurst, beastly, blankety, blanky, blasted, blessed, blest, blinking, damn, damned, darn, dratted, hexes, pesky, ruddy). (various references) | |
Swedish | jäkla (bally, blasted, blooming, cussed, damn, deuced, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy), förbannad (accursed, accurst, bloody, cotton-picking, damned, infernal). (various references) | |
Turkish | tâlihsiz (disastrous, down on one's luck, evil, grief-stricken, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky), melun (accursed, effing, unblessed), lanetli (accursed, accurst, cussed, damnable, damned, dratted, effing), lanet olası (blasted, blinking, blithering, bloody, blooming, damn, damn it, damnable, damned, darned, imprecatory, ruddy), kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, confounded, damn it, damn you, damned, flaming, goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken, heck, ruddy, sod it), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, damn, damned, darned, deuced, doggone, flaming, godforsaken, what a bind). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | окаянний, недоброзичливий (blackhearted, carping, cattish, envious, evil-minded, ill-affected, malevolent, nasty), зловредний, проклятий (accursed, accurst, bloody, blushing, cussed, damned, infernal, something). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hay gắt (bearish, biliously, rugged), ghê tởm (abhorrent, abominable, anathematic, anathematical, cursedly, disgustedly, disgustful, grisly, loathly, loathsome, odious, rebarbative, repulsive), đáng ghét (accursed, accurst, anathematic, anathematical, cursedly, loathly, loathsome, obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Welsh | melltigedig (accursed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 7, Verse 49 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | All o ocloV outoV o mh ginwskwn ton nomon epikataratoi eisin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed turba haec quae non novit legem maledicti sunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But this puple, that knowith not the lawe, ben cursid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But the comen people whiche knowe not ye lawe are cursed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But this people who know not the law are cursed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed. |
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| Language | John Chapter 7, Verse 49 |
| Cebuano | Apan kining mga tawong komon nga walay hibangkaagan sa kasugoan, sila mga tinunglo." |
| Croatian | Ali ta svjetina koja ne pozna Zakona - to je prokleto!" |
| Danish | Men denne Hob, som ikke kender Loven, er forbandet." |
| Dutch | Maar deze schare, die de wet niet weet, is vervloekt. |
| Finnish | Mutta tuo kansa, joka ei lakia tunne, on kirottu." |
| French | Mais cette foule qui ne connaît pas la loi, ce sont des maudits! |
| German | sondern das Volk, das nichts vom Gesetz weiß, ist verflucht. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun sa yo gen lè pa konn lalwa Moyiz la. Se moun ki gen madichon! |
| Hungarian | De ez a sokaság, a mely nem ismeri a törvényt, átkozott! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi orang banyak ini, mereka tidak mengenal hukum Musa, dan bagaimanapun juga mereka sudah terkutuk." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Cih, orang ramai ini, yang tiada tahu akan Taurat itu, terkutuklah mereka itu!" |
| Italian | Ma questa gente, che non conosce la Legge, è maledetta!». |
| Latvian | Bet ðis pûlis, kas nezina bauslîbu, lai ir nolâdçts! |
| Maori | Ko tenei hunga ia e kore nei e matau ki te ture, ka oti ratou te kanga. |
| Norwegian | Men denne hop som ikke kjenner loven, er forbannet. |
| Portuguese | Mas esta multidão, que não sabe a lei, é maldita. |
| Rumanian | Dar norodul acesta, care nu wtie Legea, este blestemat!`` |
| Russian | оП ЬФПФ ОБТП" ОЕЧЕЦ"Б Ч ЪБЛПОЕ, ТПЛМСФ ПО. |
| Shuar | Penké shuarka yaunchu akupkamun nékachua nuka yajauchiniam yuminkramu ainiawai" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Pero esta gente que no conoce la ley es maldita. |
| Swahili | Lakini umati huu haujui Sheria ya Mose; umelaaniwa!" |
| Swedish | Nej; men detta folk, som icke känner lagen, det är förbannat. |
| Uma | Muntu' ntodea to mpangala' -i, apa' uma ra'incai Atura Musa. Harala-rada!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cursed": curseder, cursedest, cursedly, cursedness, cursednesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cursed": accursed, becursed, outcursed, uncursed. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cursed": accursedly, accursedness, accursednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Cursed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cirsoid, corpsed, corsed, cruz, cursew. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cursed" (pronounced ker"st) |
| 3 | -er" s t | burst, coerced, conversed, immersed, disbursed, dispersed, durst, emersed, first, headfirst, Hurst, interspersed, nursed, pursed, rehearsed, reimbursed, reversed, submersed, thirst, traversed, unrehearsed, versed, worst, Wurst. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crudes. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: crude, cruds, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curse, druse, duces, dures, ecrus, sucre. | |
-2 letters: crud, crus, cuds, cued, cues, curd, cure, curs, duce, dues, dure, ecru, ecus, recs, reds, rude, rued, rues, ruse, scud, sued, suer, surd, sure, urds, used, user. | |
-3 letters: cud, cue, cur, due, ecu, eds, ers, rec, red, res, rue, sec. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: coursed, crudest, cruised, crusade, crushed, crusted, curdles, duckers, recused, reduces, rescued, scoured, secured, seducer, sourced, spruced. | |
+2 letters: accursed, adducers, becursed, caroused, censured, chorused, chudders, closured, crudites, crunodes, crusaded, crusader, crusades, cudbears, cuddlers, curbside, curdiest, curdlers, curseder, cursedly, curtsied, decorous, decorums, decuries, decurves, destruct, douceurs, durances, eductors, inducers, obscured, produces, reducers, scourged, scrouged, scrubbed, scrummed, scrupled, scurried, seducers, succored, suckered, surfaced, traduces, uncursed. | |
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