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Synonyms for cursed

The synonym for cursed recorded in this bank is curst, in the sense "deserving a curse". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for cursed

curstadjective, in the sense "deserving a curse"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day cursed is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, Summit

deserving a curse

The villagers avoided the cursed house on the hill.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

curst

Same sentence, swapped: The villagers avoided the curst house on the hill.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where cursed stands in the sentence above.

satanic
hellish
devilish

Where cursed turns up in the game

cursed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where cursed is the trap

blessedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is blest, in the sense "highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)", and cursed is on the board beside it.

Play cursed

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cursed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other words at Summit, then their alphabetical neighbours.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

cursed is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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