cursed
advEtymology From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
cursed
adjUK /ˈkɜːsɪd/ · US /ˈkɝsɪd/
Etymology From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
1
Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
2
Obsolete Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends none.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
3
hateful; damnable; accursed
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
4
Colloquial Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
- “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York:
- Derived terms
- blursed, cursedly, cursedness, uncursed
- Related terms
- haunted