cursed🔊

Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

📑 Synonyms: accursed cussed

(obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

📑 Synonyms: harpyish harpylike shrewish shrewlike

💬 Quotations

Leonato. By my troth neece thou wilt never 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.

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Hateful; damnable; accursed.

(colloquial) Frightening or unsettling; humorously portrayed as such.

📑 Synonyms: bizarre cringe macabre

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