blasted
adv1
Colloquial Damned; extremely.
- That dog is so blasted stubborn.
blasted
adjUK /ˈblɑː.stɪd/ · CA, US /ˈblæs.tɪd/
1
Subjected to an explosion.
- The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.
2
Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.
- a blasted tree
- In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 4, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 6, page 189:
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Of a tree Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
Bush; etc; bush; etc
- BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees. Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 57:
- A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane Osterhoudt of Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1791-1914, page 7:
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Colloquial Accursed; damned.
- I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.
- You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 212:
3 more examples
- `I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 9:
- With the evidence before me, gathering each day I doahn't wind the blasted Watch,— even so, I can't believe in it…?1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 320:
- “Whatever you do, don’t let that blasted woman in!”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
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Slang Intoxicated, drunk.
- Dude, we got blasted last night.