adj
cursed
KUR-sihd
adj
1
Affected by a curse; suffering from bad luck believed to be supernatural.
"The ship was said to be cursed after three captains vanished at sea."
2
Informal: strange, unsettling, or absurd in a way that's treated as darkly funny (common in internet slang for bizarre images).
"Someone posted a cursed photo of a cat wearing shoes."
adv
1
Old-fashioned: extremely, damnably.
"It was a cursed cold night to be stranded outside."
How to Use Cursed
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUnder a curse — or, in modern slang, so weird it's almost disturbing.
When to use it
The internet-slang "cursed image" sense is very informal and mostly used online, paired with its joke opposite "blessed."
Word Forms
curseder comparative, more cursed comparative, cursedest superlative, most cursed superlative
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Etymology
The past participle of curse, formed with the ending -ed.