CURSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cursed mean? 

• CURSED (adjective)
  The adjective CURSED has 2 senses:

1. deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier

2. in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell

  Familiarity information: CURSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier

Synonyms:

cursed; curst

Context example:

I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning

Similar:

accursed; accurst; maledict (under a curse)

blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal (expletives used informally as intensifiers)

cursed with; stuck with (burdened with)

damn; goddamn (used as expletives)

damnable; execrable (deserving a curse)

Antonym:

blessed (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace))

Sense 2

Meaning:

In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell

Synonyms:

cursed; damned; doomed; unredeemed; unsaved

Context example:

poor damned souls

Similar:

lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

 Context examples 

They were looking for him, he knew; and for the moment he could have cursed that in him which drew women.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that was enough.

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

Always he cursed Dennin savagely and handled him roughly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“It was those cursed headaches brought it on.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“In, in, in!” he shouted, and cursed them for their delay.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On the other hand, their common folk are so crushed down with gabelle, and poll-tax, and every manner of cursed tallage, that the spirit has passed right out of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another cursed the Admiralty Courts, where a prize goes in as a full-rigged ship and comes out as a schooner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes continued his swift investigation of documents while his prisoner cursed and swore.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those who hurried up heard him cursing Buck, and he cursed him long and fervently, and softly and lovingly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)