ACCURSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accursed mean? 

• ACCURSED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCURSED has 1 sense:

1. under a curse

  Familiarity information: ACCURSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCURSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under a curse

Synonyms:

accursed; accurst; maledict

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

If he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw you, Ned, upon that accursed night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am not such a fool! cried the dwarf; don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The governor has never held up his head from that evening, and now the life has been crushed out of him and his heart broken, all through this accursed Hudson.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it’s the lady, Mary—Mary Fraser—for never will I call her by that accursed name.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

God knows that there is ground for my terrible fear in this accursed place!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: Pieces of eight!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with me of other things, for God’s sake, stay and do so; but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God’s name, go, for I cannot bear it.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)