say it: kurst
cursed is an adjective meaning "deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier". It is pronounced /ˈkɝst/ — kurst. It carries 2 recorded senses.
deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
“villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed”
“cursed with four daughter”
“not a cursed drop”
“his cursed stupidity”
“I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning”
in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
“poor damned souls”
Christianity
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cursed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.