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Curst

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

v. A past tense and a past participle of curse.

adj. Variant of cursed.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Archaic spelling of cursed.

v. Archaic spelling of cursed.; Simple past tense and past participle of curse.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

imp. & p. p. of curse.

adj. Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Shrewish; waspish; vixenish; ill-tempered: applied to women.

Ill-tempered; crabbed; cantankerous; peevish; snarling: applied to men.

Vicious; fierce; dangerous.

Detestable; execrable: used as an expletive.

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

adj. deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier

Word Usage

"I do not think any of my people ever looked at their calling in this fashion, but Macready was a very honest man, and that and his "curst" temper (Shakespeare, you know) give me great sympathy for him."

Equivalent

blessed execrable goddam darned damn accurst goddamn maledict damned blasted

Variant

curse

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

froward malignant mischievous malicious snarling

Verb Stem

curse

Same Context

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