| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful, swearing remark |
Synonyms: |
anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cuss word, cussing, damning, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, malison, naughty words, no-no, oath, objuration, obloquy, obscenity, profanation, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, vilification, whammy |
Antonyms: |
compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune wished upon someone |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swear |
Synonyms: |
be foul-mouthed, bedamn, blaspheme, cuss, execrate, flame*, imprecate, take name in vain, talk dirty, use bad language, utter profanity |
| Main Entry: | abomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of extreme dislike, hate |
Synonyms: |
anathema, aversion, bother, curse, detestation, evil, horror, nuisance, plague, shame, torment |
Antonyms: |
beauty, blessing, delight, enjoyment, esteem, joy, love, treat |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbal attack |
Synonyms: |
bad-mouthing, blame, castigation, censure, curse, curses, defamation, derision, hosing, insults, invective, kicking around, knifing, libel, obloquy, opprobrium, pushing around, put-down, quinine, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, slander, swearing, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
Antonyms: |
acclamation, adulation, approval, commendation, plaudit, praise |
| Main Entry: | anathema |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denouncement |
Synonyms: |
ban, censure, commination, condemnation, curse, damnation, denunciation, excommunication, execration, imprecation, malediction, proscription, reprehension, reprobation, reproof, taboo |
| Main Entry: | ban |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | officially forbid |
Synonyms: |
banish, bar, blackball, close down, close up, curse, declare illegal, disallow, enjoin, exclude, halt, ice out, illegalize, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, pass by, pass up, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, restrict, shut out, suppress |
Antonyms: |
allow, permit |
| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
Synonyms: |
affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Main Entry: | bête noire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disliked person |
Synonyms: |
adversary, anathema, antagonist, bad news, bad news, bane, bitter enemy, bugbear, competitor, curse, devil, enemy, foe, opponent, pet hate, plague, rival, trouble |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, health, prosperity |