different between cursed vs curded

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

English

Verb

curded

1. simple past tense and past participle of curd

Adjective

curded (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having curds of a specified kind.

   soft-curded milk