Accursed

Pronunciation ,

• UK IPA: /əˈkəː.sɪd/, /əˈkəːst/
• US IPA: /É™.ˈkɝst/, /əˈkɝ.sɪd/

Alternative forms

• obsolete accurst 13^th C.

Origin

• 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").

Full definition of accursed

Adjective

1. (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
• ca. 1789, William Blake, "",Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
• 1819, Walter Scott, , ,Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
2. (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
• 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, ,...—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
• 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by , , ,For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen ...

Synonyms

• (hateful, detestable) execrable, damnable

Derived terms

• accursedly
• accursedness

Verb

1. accursed

   (past of accurse)

Anagrams

• cardecus