curseful
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cursful, equivalent to curse + -ful.
Adjective edit
curseful (comparative more curseful, superlative most curseful)
- (archaic) horrendous, horrific
- 1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons:
- They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.
- 1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper[1]:
- Don't name the curseful place.