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curseful

curseful adjective: horrendous, horrific.

Adjective

curseful (comparative more curseful, superlative most curseful)

  1. (archaic) horrendous, horrific
    • They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons
    • Don't name the curseful place.1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper

Forms of curseful

comparativemore curseful
superlativemost curseful

Origin of curseful

From Middle English cursful, equivalent to curse + -ful.

Words formed from curseful

Questions about curseful

What does curseful mean?
Curseful means horrendous, horrific.
What part of speech is curseful?
Curseful is an adjective.

Words near curseful in the dictionary

  1. cursedness
  2. cursednesses
  3. cursedst
  4. cursee
  5. cursees
  6. curseful
  7. cursefully
  8. Curselax
  9. Curselaxes
  10. curseless
  11. curselike

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