Curses Synonyms and Antonyms

Something causing misery or death
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scourges
  2. torments
  3. nemeses
  4. evils
  5. banes
  6. plagues
  7. woes
Something or someone believed to bring bad luck
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. jinxes
  2. hoodoos
  3. hexes
A denunciation invoking a wish or threat of evil or injury
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. anathemas
  2. imprecations
  3. damnations
Utter obscenities or profanities
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swears
  2. profanes
  3. imprecates
  4. blasphemes
  5. damn
Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. damn
  2. imprecates
  3. execrates
  4. bans
  5. anathematizes
Antonyms:
  1. communicates
  2. blesses
To bring bad luck or evil to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. jinxes
  2. hoodoos
  3. hexes
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. condemnations

Words Related to Curses

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Curses Sentence Examples

  • Curses, caught in the act.

  • Charles let out a string of curses and dragged one of the guardsmen off the ground.

  • On the 18th of December 1573 Alva, who to the end had persisted in his policy of pitiless severity, left Brussels, carrying with him the curses of the people over whom he had tyrannized for six terrible years of misery and oppression.

  • Kris muttered curses and touched her shoulder.

  • Groans and curses rose from the grassy area around the blazing facility.

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