accursed
Pronunciation: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/
The English word “accursed” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
- Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
Etymology
From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursian, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.
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