cursed
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noun
1.
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
2.
a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another.
3.
the act of reciting such a formula.
4.
a profane oath; curse word.
5.
an evil that has been invoked upon one.
verb (used with object)
10.
to wish or invoke evil, calamity, injury, or destruction upon.
11.
to swear at.
12.
to blaspheme.
13.
to afflict with great evil.
14.
to excommunicate.
verb (used without object)
15.
to utter curses; swear profanely.
Origin:
before 1050; Middle English curs (noun), cursen (v.), Old English curs (noun), cursian (v.), of disputed orig.
before 1050; Middle English curs (noun), cursen (v.), Old English curs (noun), cursian (v.), of disputed orig.
Related forms
curs·er, noun
out·curse, verb (used with object), out·cursed, out·curs·ing.
un·curs·ing, adjective
Synonyms
1, 9. imprecation, execration, fulmination, malediction. 5. misfortune, calamity, trouble. 5, 6. bane, scourge, plague, affliction, torment. 10-12. Curse, blaspheme, swear are often interchangeable in the sense of using profane language. However, curse is the general word for the heartfelt invoking or angry calling down of evil on another: They called down curses on their enemies. To blaspheme is to speak contemptuously or with abuse of God or of sacred things: to blaspheme openly. To swear is to use the name of God or of some holy person or thing as an exclamation to add force or show anger: to swear in every sentence. 13. plague, scourge, afflict, doom.
1, 9. imprecation, execration, fulmination, malediction. 5. misfortune, calamity, trouble. 5, 6. bane, scourge, plague, affliction, torment. 10-12. Curse, blaspheme, swear are often interchangeable in the sense of using profane language. However, curse is the general word for the heartfelt invoking or angry calling down of evil on another: They called down curses on their enemies. To blaspheme is to speak contemptuously or with abuse of God or of sacred things: to blaspheme openly. To swear is to use the name of God or of some holy person or thing as an exclamation to add force or show anger: to swear in every sentence. 13. plague, scourge, afflict, doom.
Antonyms
1, 9. blessing, benediction. 10. bless.
1, 9. blessing, benediction. 10. bless.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a profane or obscene expression of anger, disgust, surprise, etc; oath |
| 2. | an appeal to a supernatural power for harm to come to a specific person, group, etc |
| 3. | harm resulting from an appeal to a supernatural power: to be under a curse |
| 4. | something that brings or causes great trouble or harm |
| 5. | a saying, charm, effigy, etc, used to invoke a curse |
| 6. | an ecclesiastical censure of excommunication |
| 7. | informal the curse menstruation or a menstrual period |
| —vb , curses, cursing, cursed, curst | |
| 8. | (intr) to utter obscenities or oaths |
| 9. | (tr) to abuse (someone) with obscenities or oaths |
| 10. | (tr) to invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something) |
| 11. | (tr) to bring harm upon |
| 12. | (tr) another word for excommunicate |
| [Old English cursian to curse, from curs a curse] | |
| 'curser | |
| —n | |
| cursed or curst (ˈkɜːsɪd, kɜːst) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | under a curse |
| 2. | deserving to be cursed; detestable; hateful |
| curst or curst | |
| —adj | |
| 'cursedly or curst | |
| —adv | |
| 'cursedness or curst | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
curse
O.E. curs "a prayer that evil or harm befall one," of uncertain origin, perhaps O.Fr. curuz "anger," or L. cursus "course." Connection with cross is unlikely. No similar word exists in Gmc., Romance, or Celtic. Meaning "to swear profanely" is from c.1230. Curses as a histrionic exclamation is from 1885.
The curse "menstruation" is from 1930.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Curse definition
denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen. 9:25; 49:7; Deut. 27:15; Josh. 6:26). Such curses are not the consequence of passion or revenge, they are predictions. No one on pain of death shall curse father or mother (Ex. 21:17), nor the prince of his people (22:28), nor the deaf (Lev. 19:14). Cursing God or blaspheming was punishable by death (Lev. 24:10-16). The words "curse God and die" (R.V., "renounce God and die"), used by Job's wife (Job 2:9), have been variously interpreted. Perhaps they simply mean that as nothing but death was expected, God would by this cursing at once interpose and destroy Job, and so put an end to his sufferings.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
Professors are both blessed and cursed with the lack of a standard uniform.
Previously, water had both cursed and blessed the pioneers.
The journey is blessed, cursed, mysterious and tender.
The obsessive focus that these blessed, cursed minds bring to their goals often excludes social peripheral vision.
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