Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cuss
comparative more cussed · superlative most cussed
- USinformalIll-tempered, nasty, obstinate.
- datedinformalCursed, damned.
No one ever see him down on his luck till this cussed fever took him, Our rations was often short, but it was share and share alike down to the last pipe o' baccy.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 168Synonyms: accursed, fey, ill-fated, accursed, condemned, cursed, star-crossed, sunk
- USinformalnot comparabledegreeVery, cussedly, accursedly.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCursed, damned.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivestubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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cussed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cussed
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