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Accursed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Abominable; hateful: this accursed mud.

adj. Being under a curse; doomed.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Hateful; detestable.

adj. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of accurse.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

past-participle. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- .

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Subject to a curse; doomed to harm or misfortune; blasted; ruined.

Worthy of curses or execrations; detestable; execrable; cursed: as, “deeds accursed,” Collins, Ode to Fear.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. under a curse

Word Usage

"The doctor states plainly that one thing only has preserved the place from the doom of the cities of the plain, and that is the presence of certain good Christians, otherwise Catholics, in what he terms the accursed city."

Equivalent

cursed curst accurst

Antonym

blessed

Form

accursedness accursedly

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cursed execrable detestable anathematized execrated

Same Context

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