Accursed Definition

ə-kûrsĭd, ə-kûrst
adjective
Abominable; hateful.
This accursed mud.
American Heritage
Under a curse; ill-fated.
Webster's New World
Being under a curse; doomed.
American Heritage
Deserving to be cursed; damnable; abominable.
Webster's New World

(prenominal) Hateful; detestable.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of accurse.

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Origin of Accursed

  • Middle English acursed past participle of acursen to put a curse on a- intensive pref. (from Old English ā-) Old English cursian to curse (from curs curse)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā + cursen, from curs (“curse”).

    From Wiktionary

  • First attested in the early 13th century.

    From Wiktionary

Accursed Sentence Examples

  • Lamplighters used to light street lamps every night, before the accursed electricity came along.

  • It was "the most accursed lie," he said, "that could be offered to mankind."

  • The highland region of northern Albania is divided into two portions by the lower course of the Drin; the mountains of the northern portion, the Bieska Malziis, extend in a confused and broken series of ridges from Scutari to the valleys of the Ibar and White Drin; they comprise the rocky group of the Prokletia, or Accursed Mountains, with their numerous ramifications, including Mount Velechik, inhabited by the Kastrat and Shkrel tribes, Bukovik by the Hot, Golesh by the Klement, Skulsen (7533 ft.), Baba Vrkh (about 7306 ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the east.

  • Any one who removed a boundary stone was accursed (sacer) and might be slain with impunity; a fine was afterwards substituted for the death penalty.

  • The terror inspired by the Peasant War led to a new alliance, the League of Dessau, formed by some of the leading rulers of central and northern Germany, to stamp out the accursed Lutheran sect."

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