different between blasted vs cursed

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bl??st.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blæst.?d/

Verb

blasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of blast

Adjective

blasted (not comparable)

1. Subjected to an explosion.

   The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.

2. Subjected to violent gusts of wind.
3. (colloquial) Accursed; damned.

   I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.

4. (heraldry) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
5. (colloquial) Damned; bloody.
6. (slang) Intoxicated, drunk.

   Dude, we got blasted last night.

Synonyms

• (subjected to explosion): exploded
• (exposed to wind):
• (cursed): See Thesaurus:damned
• (tree with no leaves):
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

Adverb

blasted (comparative more blasted, superlative most blasted)

1. (colloquial) Damned; extremely.

   That dog is so blasted stubborn.

Anagrams

• baldest, stabled

English

Etymology

From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kûrs??d, kûrst, IPA^(key): /?k??s?d/, /k??st/
• (US) enPR: kûrs??d, kûrst, IPA^(key): /?k?s?d/, /k?st/, [?k??s??d], [k??st]
• Rhymes: -??(?)s?d, -??(?)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

Adjective

cursed (comparative more cursed, superlative most cursed)

1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
2. (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:

     LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

     ANTONIO. In faith, she's too curst.

     BEATRICE. Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.

3. hateful; damnable; accursed

   That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

4. (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling.
   • 2016, Brian Feldman, "What Makes a Cursed Image?", New York Magazine, 31 October 2016:

     “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”

Alternative forms

• cursèd, curséd (poetic)

Synonyms

• (having some sort of divine harm): accursed, cussed (US slang); see also Thesaurus:doomed
• (shrewish): harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike

Antonyms

• (having some sort of divine harm): blessed

Derived terms

• cursedly
• cursedness

Translations

Pronunciation 2

• (UK) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (US) enPR: kûrst, IPA^(key): /k?st/, [k??st]
• Rhymes: -??(?)st
• Hyphenation: cursed

Verb

cursed

1. simple past tense and past participle of curse

Alternative forms

• curst (archaic)

Anagrams

• Ducres, crudes