variants or less commonly curst
: being under or deserving a curse
cursedly adverb
cursedness noun

Examples of cursed in a Sentence

Some people think the old house is cursed. a people cursed with famine His cursed stupidity got him in trouble again. I can't get this cursed radio to work.
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As mentor to a nascent entrepreneur and future president, Strong gave us a cursed Roy Cohn who grew more shocked about his apprentice. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025 Image ‘The Monkey’ After a cursed toy monkey from his childhood reappears, a man (Theo James) tries to stop it in this horror comedy directed by Osgood Perkins. The New York Times, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 On March 25, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, shared an extremely cursed image of himself and fellow OpenAI scientists Gabriel Goh and Prafulla Dhariwal as Ghibli-esque, uh, tech guys. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025 If anything, phonk radiates a pure anti-politics, a cursed air raid siren for the polycrisis. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cursed

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cursed was in the 13th century

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“Cursed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cursed. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

cursed

adjective
variants also curst
: being under or deserving a curse
cursedly adverb
cursedness noun

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