# cursed
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation
#### Adjective

* (UK) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA: /ˈkɜːsɪd/, /kɜːst/
* (US) enPR: kûrsʹĭd, kûrst, IPA: /ˈkɝsɪd/, /kɝst/, [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d], [kʰɝst]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪd, -ɜː(ɹ)st
* Hyphenation: cursed

#### Verb

* (UK) enPR: kûrst, IPA: /kɜːst/
* (US) enPR: kûrst, IPA: /kɝst/, [kʰɝst]
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
* Hyphenation: cursed

### Adjective

cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)
* Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
* (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
** 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,: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.
* hateful; damnable; accursed
    That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
* (colloquial, of images, communication, or behavior) Frightening or unsettling; humorously portrayed as such.
    Coordinate term: blursed
** 2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York:“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.”

#### Alternative forms

* cursèd, curséd (poetic)
* curst (archaic)

#### Synonyms

* (having some sort of divine harm): accursed, cussed (US slang); see also Thesaurus:doomed
* (shrewish): harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike
* (unsettling): bizarre, cringe, macabre

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “having some sort of divine harm”): blessed

#### Derived terms

* blursed
* cursedly
* cursedness
* uncursed

#### See also

* haunted

### Verb

cursed
* simple past and past participle of curse

#### Alternative forms

* curst (archaic)

### Anagrams

* Ducres, crudes

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* corsed, cursid, curst

### Etymology

From cursen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkursɛd/, /-id/

### Adjective

cursed
* accursed

#### Descendants

* English: cursed
* Yola: cursed

#### References

* “cursed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English cursed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʊrst/

### Adjective

cursed
* cursed
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:To hint dhicka cursed vox vrom Bloomere's lhoan.To hunt that cursed fox from Bloomer's land.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104