cursed
/ˈkəːsɪd
/ /kəːst /adjective [attributive] informal, dated
Used to express annoyance or irritation: his cursed tidy-mindedness...
- He finds out from Gandalf how dangerous the ring is and must make the trip to distant Rivendell to decide the fate of the cursed item.
- If the sacred remnants of the ancients fall into this cursed fate, all but one will parish.
- A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on.
Synonyms
under a curse, damned, doomed, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed;
anathematized, excommunicated, excommunicate;
Scottish fey
informal jinxed
literary accursed
Derivatives
cursedly
- But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
- Gradually it became clear to me that I had landed outside the English lines, but cursedly near them.
- The rest of the book remains cursedly metal-free, yet filled to the brim with confused laddies.
cursedness
- That is part of the cursedness of the shotgun messenger's life - the loneliness of it.
- But - even if you stand on every hilltop around, and even if you enlist all your powers of cursedness and evil, you know - and we know that you know - that we are the blessed.
- The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe.