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damned Definition

damned (damd; also, as in oratory, damnid)

adjective

  1. condemned or deserving condemnation
  2. Informal deserving cursing; outrageous: now often a mere intensive a damned shame

adverb

Informal very a damned good job

damned Idioms

do one's damnedest (or damndest)

Informal to do or try one's utmost

the damned

Theol. souls doomed to eternal punishment

damned Synonyms

damned

modif.

  1. Consigned to hell

    cursed, condemned, accursed, doomed, unhappy, anathematized, lost, fallen, reprobate, infernal, hell-bound*, gone to blazes*; see also doomed, unfortunate 2.

    Antonyms saved, blessed*, on high.

  2. *Disapproved of

    bad, unwelcome, detestable, abominable, loathsome, cursed, damn*, goddamned*, goddamn*, darned*, confounded*, blamed*, blankety-blank*, blithering*, blessed*, blasted*, bloody*, cussed*, danged*, goldarned*, doggone*, dashed*, dratted*, infernal*, deuced*, lousy*; see also offensive 2, undesirable.

    Antonyms desirable, welcomed*, favorite.

do<strong> (<em>or</em> </strong>try<strong>) </strong>one's damnedest*

endeavor, do one's best, give one's all, do one's utmost; see try 1.

damned Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • thing: MD: It is the damnedest thing you ever heard off.
  • time: The band disintegrated when Roman Jugg joined up with The Damned full time, & members carried on in The Scanners, Carburetors.
damned Quotes

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always those damned dishes.

—French, Marilyn

'Damn you!' 'You need not. I feel among the damned already.'

—Shaw, George Bernard

   Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?

—Gloucester,William Henry, 1st Duke of

The Beautiful and the Damned.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

Hell isfull of musical amateurs: music isthebrandyofthe damned.

—Shaw, George Bernard

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

—Pope, Alexander

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

It has been a damned serious businessöBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingöthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life† By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

   If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o'mine,O mother o'mine.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Browse dictionary entries near damned

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