"accursed" meaning in English

See accursed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/ [UK], /əˈkɝ.sɪd/ [US] Audio: en-us-accursed.ogg [US], en-us-accursed-2.ogg [US] Forms: more accursed [comparative], most accursed [superlative]
Etymology: * First attested in the early 13th century. * From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|acursed}} Middle English acursed, {{m|enm|acursen|t=to curse}} acursen (“to curse”), {{der|en|ang|ācursian}} Old English ācursian, {{m|ang|ā}} ā, {{m|ang|cursen}} cursen, {{m|ang|curs|t=curse}} curs (“curse”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)
  1. (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome. Synonyms (hateful, detestable): execrable, damnable Translations (hateful): κατηραμένος (katēraménos) (Ancient Greek), κατάρατος (katáratos) (Ancient Greek), проклет (proklet) (Bulgarian), malbenita (Esperanto), kirottu (Finnish), mokoma (Finnish), fichu [also] (French), satanée (French), détestable (French), καταραμένος m επάρατος (kataraménos) [masculine] (Greek), mallachtach (Irish), maldito (Portuguese), blestemat (Romanian), afurisit (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-accursed-en-adj-UWUC0wWo Disambiguation of 'hateful, detestable': 93 7 Disambiguation of 'hateful': 96 4
  2. (theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized. Categories (topical): Theology Translations (theology: cursed): κατάρατος (katáratos) (Ancient Greek), অভিশপ্ত (obhiśopto) (Bengali), শাপগ্রস্ত (śapogrosto) (Bengali), прокълнат (prokǎlnat) (Bulgarian), fordømt (Danish), kirottu (Finnish), maudit (French), επάρατος (epáratos) [masculine] (Greek), καταραμένος (kataraménos) [masculine] (Greek), επικατάρατος (epikatáratos) [masculine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-accursed-en-adj-3FL8szPS Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology Disambiguation of 'theology: cursed': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: accurst [13th C.] [obsolete] Derived forms: accursedly, accursedness, nonaccursed, unaccursed

Verb

IPA: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/ [UK], /əˈkɝ.sɪd/ [US] Audio: en-us-accursed.ogg [US], en-us-accursed-2.ogg [US]
Etymology: * First attested in the early 13th century. * From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|acursed}} Middle English acursed, {{m|enm|acursen|t=to curse}} acursen (“to curse”), {{der|en|ang|ācursian}} Old English ācursian, {{m|ang|ā}} ā, {{m|ang|cursen}} cursen, {{m|ang|curs|t=curse}} curs (“curse”) Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} accursed
  1. simple past and past participle of accurse Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: accurse
    Sense id: en-accursed-en-verb-3opTIlp5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English heteronyms, English terms with unexpected syllabic -ed Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 20 55 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 27 11 62 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 21 23 56 Disambiguation of English terms with unexpected syllabic -ed: 17 24 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: accurst [13th C.] [obsolete]

Alternative forms

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          "text": "[…]Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, \"Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle;[…]",
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        "Hateful; detestable, loathsome."
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          "detestable",
          "detestable"
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        "(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome."
      ]
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          "ref": "1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8",
          "text": "[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,\nFor at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Return of the King/Book V, Chapter 10",
          "text": "We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!"
        }
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        "(theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized."
      ],
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        "lifestyle",
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        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/əˈkɝ.sɪd/",
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      "sense": "hateful, detestable",
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      "sense": "hateful, detestable",
      "word": "damnable"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proklet",
      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "проклет"
    },
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "malbenita"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "kirottu"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "hateful",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "hateful",
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        "masculine"
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      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "κατηραμένος"
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      "word": "κατάρατος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "mallachtach"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "hateful",
      "word": "maldito"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "code": "bn",
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      "word": "অভিশপ্ত"
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      "sense": "theology: cursed",
      "word": "শাপগ্রস্ত"
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      "code": "da",
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      "word": "fordømt"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "maudit"
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