Word Meanings - CURSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURSED)

• Execrable
• Detestable
• loathsome
• accursed
• cursed
• villainous
• diabolical
• hateful
• abominable

Related words: (words related to CURSED)

• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• CURST
  imp. & p.p. of Curse.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• CURSHIP
  The state of being a cur; one who is currish. How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• DETESTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being detestable.
• CURSORES
  An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ. A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
• CURSORY
  1. Running about; not stationary. 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.
• CURSITOR
  An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. (more info) fr. cursare to run hither and thither, fr. currere to run. See 1. A courier or runner. "Cursitors to and fro." Holland.
• ACCURSED; ACCURST
  Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.
• CURSTNESS
  Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. Shak.
• CURSOR
  Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
• CURSORARY
  Cursory; hasty. With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.
• CURSORILY
  In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
• DECURSIVELY
  In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• DISCURSIST
  A discourser. L. Addison.
• DISCURSION
  The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.
• CIRCUMCURSATION
  The act of running about; also, rambling language. Barrow.
• DIABOLIC; DIABOLICAL
  Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act. "Diabolic power." Milton. "The diabolical
• INEXECRABLE
  That can not be execrated enough.
• EXCURSIVE
  Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.
• SUCCURSAL
  Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.