DAMNED

blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal

(adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers; “he’s a blasted idiot”; “it’s a blamed shame”; “a blame cold winter”; “not a blessed dime”; “I’ll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I’ll do any such thing”; “he’s a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”; “a deuced idiot”; “an infernal nuisance”

cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved

(adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; “poor damned souls”

damned, damnably, cursedly

(adverb) in a damnable manner; “kindly Arthur--so damnably, politely, endlessly persistent!”

damned

(noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment; “he felt he had visited the realm of the damned”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

damned (comparative damneder or more damned, superlative damnedest or most damned)

God-forsaken.

Variant of profane damn.

Usage notes

• Used as an example of something someone is not: Damned if I know; I'll be damned if I let him get away with that.

Synonyms

• (god-forsaken): See doomed

• (profanity): See damned

Adverb

damned (comparative more damned, superlative most damned)

(mildly vulgar) Very.

Verb

damned

simple past tense and past participle of damn

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, demand, madden, manded

Source: Wiktionary


Damned, a.

1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

2. Hateful; detestable; abominable. But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. Shak.

DAMN

Damn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning.] Etym: [OE. damnen dap), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]

1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.

2. (Theol.)

Definition: To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Damn, v. i.

Definition: To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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