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Condemned vs Accursed - What's the difference?

condemned | accursed |

As adjectives the difference between condemned and accursed

is that condemned is having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally while accursed is (prenominal) hateful; detestable.

As verbs the difference between condemned and accursed

is that condemned is (condemn) while accursed is (accurse).

As a noun condemned

is a person sentenced to death.

condemned

English

Adjective

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  • Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
  • Having been sharply scolded.
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  • Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
  • (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
  • Synonyms

    * (having received a curse) damned, doomed

    Antonyms

    * (having received a curse) blessed, saved

    Noun

    (condemned)
  • A person sentenced to death.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (condemn)
  • accursed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) accurst

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
  • * ca. 1789 , ",
  • Accursed' race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you ' accursed sons.
  • * 1819 , ,
  • Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
  • (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
  • * 1885 , Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of ,
  • —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed .
  • * 1912 , ,
  • For at the very moment I become accursed , at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen

    Synonyms

    * execrable, damnable

    Derived terms

    * accursedly * accursedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accurse)
  • Anagrams

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