damned meaning: definition, quotations

damned

adj

/dæmd/

Godforsaken.

You're children of the damned // like candles, watch them burn // burning in the light // you'll burn again tonight.1982, Iron Maiden, “Children of the Damned”:

Alternative Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something.

1 more example

He became furious when developers tore them down to build newer and bigger ones. “It’s like a damned theme park!” he rages. “What happened to the frickin’ sin?”2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 37:

Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of I'll be damned.

Synonyms: 67 terms
4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming, blinking, bloody, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damblasted, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, fecking, flaming, flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking
Derived terms: as be damned, be damned, Billy-be-damned, damned if I know, damned if one does and damned if one doesn't, damned well, ever-damned, fore-damned, foredamned, I'll be damned, purser rigged and parish damned, undamned
Related terms: dammit, total, the dickens, :Category:English intensifiers

adv

What's so damned important about a football game?
[…] Jacques Cartier found the new country quite exciting, gleefully naming it Canada, from the Eskimo word canuck, which I’m told means, “I’m damned sick of all this snow and that polar bear tried to eat me.”2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 49: