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cursed
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)
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- (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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:
- hateful; damnable; accursed
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- (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.”
- 2016, Brian Feldman, "What Makes a Cursed Image?", New York Magazine, 31 October 2016:
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
- simple past tense and past participle of curse
Alternative forms
- curst (archaic)
Anagrams
- Ducres, crudes
cursed From the web:
- what cursed 2020
- what cursed means
- what cursed dumbledore's hand
- what cursed dumbledore
- what cursed child character are you
- what cursed character are you
- what cursed vivienne
- what cursed child character are you
swore
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: swôr, IPA(key): /sw??/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: swô, IPA(key): /sw??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sw?r, IPA(key): /swo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /swo?/
- (nonstandard but traditional, several locations) enPR: swo?or, IPA(key): /sw??/, /sw??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
swore
- simple past tense of swear
- (dialectal or colloquial) past participle of swear
Anagrams
- Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, rowse, serow, sower, sowre, worse
Middle English
Noun
swore
- Alternative form of sware
swore From the web:
- what sore
- what sore throat looks like
- what sore means
- what sore muscles look like
- what sore throat
- what sore throat feels like
- what sores in mouth
- what sore muscles mean
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