curst
/kɜː(ɹ)st/
curst is the archaic spelling of cursed.
Meaning of cursed
Adjective
cursed (comparative curseder or more cursed, superlative cursedest or most cursed)
- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends...1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II...
- hateful; damnable; accursed
- That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
- “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York
Forms of curst
| comparative | curster |
|---|---|
| superlative | curstest |
Words formed from curst
Words that rhyme with curst
Questions about curst
- What is curst the archaic spelling of?
- Curst is the archaic spelling of cursed.
- How do you pronounce curst?
- Curst is pronounced /kɜː(ɹ)st/.
Words near curst in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: curst (page history and authors); cursed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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