cursed

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
  2. (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
  3. hateful; damnable; accursed
    That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
  4. (colloquial) Frightening or unsettling.
    “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.” 31 October 2016, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of curse

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