Entry Word: curse

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a prayer that harm will come to someone <the victimʼs curse that the man who robbed her never receive any pleasure from her money>

Synonyms anathema, execration, imprecation, malediction

Related Words censure, condemnation, damnation, denunciation; hex, spell

Near Antonyms citation, commendation, endorsement

Antonyms benediction, benison, blessing

2 a disrespectful or indecent word or expression <started muttering curses after hitting his thumb with the hammer> — see swearword