Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Condemned, especially to eternal punishment.
- adj. Informal Deserving condemnation; detestable: this damned weather.
- adj. Used as an intensive: a damned fool.
- adv. Used as an intensive: a damned poor excuse.
- n. Souls doomed to eternal punishment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Condemned; judicially sentenced; specifically, (reputed to be) sentenced to punishment in a future state; consigned to perdition.
- Hateful; detestable; abominable: a profane objurgation, also used adverbially to express more or less intense dislike: as an adverb also simply intensive, equivalent to ‘very,’ ‘exceedingly,’ employed to strengthen an adjective used in either reprobation or approbation, and in sound often shortened to dam. In literary use often printed d—d.
Wiktionary
- adj. god-forsaken
- adj. Variant of profane damn.
- adv. vulgar Very.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of damn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
- adj. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a damnable manner
- n. people who are condemned to eternal punishment
- adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
- adj. in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Examples
“By George!" said Marmaduke, admiringly, "he did that damned well -- _damned_ well.”
“You know what they call the damned thing when women have it -- kleptomania, isn't it?”
“And so Edison recalled the batteries he had trumpeted so loudly, went back to the lab, and set out to finish what he called his "damned problem.”
“Now, that's what I call a damned good fellow: you don't often meet a chap like him," observed the master.”
“MXX: I think I would have understood it more if they were half siblings or if thy never knew each other to start with ... but they knew already they were siblings ... of course, I guess the whole "you are damned from the start you evil rotten children" might been the "reason" for it to go so horribly wrong!?”
“Bosch and Haller are teamed, not for the first time, in "The Reversal" (Little, Brown, 389 pages, $27.99), but with a twist: Mickey, the sardonically self-styled "defender of the damned," is tapped by the district attorney to be special independent prosecutor for the retrial of a child-murderer whose two-decades-old conviction has been thrown out as a result of recent DNA findings.”
The Wall Street Journal: Death in L.A.; Southern Suspicion; Spenser Gets Artistic
“I'm in damned good company too -- if you're looking for a masterclass in contemporary sf, this would be the place to start:”
“His ideas were being debated on every radio chat show, his name damned and deified in the space of two callers, and he was having an affair with a beautiful, intelligent young woman who thought him a god and proudly undressed in front of him.”
“Like the "hare" (God forbid you call the damned thing a "rabbit" ... how many words rhyme with rabbit other than "dangnabbit"?) and the Eagle (with his friend ... the Beagle).”
“STENGEL: You know, I think either person who wins is going to have a-- you use the word damned -- I mean, is going to have a kind of cursed presidency.”
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount - November 20, 2000
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘damned’.
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Words I loathe
can't, hate, skree, pomp, russel, moist, damned, pure, justified, saved, fulcrum, cooch and 11 more...
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Snooty
Words that think way too much of themselves
notoriety, posh, victorian, mien, terrace, veritable, ambivalent, paradox, hypocrisy, damned, caprice, renaissance and 8 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Spam Names
Interesting words that came to me in spam emails in the "From" field. Read in pairs by order added, add the initial of your choice, and you'll get a list of "names."
menominee, burbled, abrasives, barrister, unfortunates, strolls, appareled, uncles, removal, elusive, significance, described and 180 more...
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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d is for depressing!
dolorous, damaging, depressing, drab, dull, dumb, derelict, decaying, dubious, doubtful, dreadful, dangerous and 86 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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Lee Words
Words for Lee. :3
nictitate, babyface, pallbearer, venom, short, sunglasses, celibacy, loneliness, blood, debt, blush, damned and 5 more...
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Devilish
devil, demon, diabolical, deviltry, hell, devilment, devilry, hellish, infernal, hellborn, devil dance, demonic and 20 more...
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descriptors - adjectives - insults
puerile, grotesque, decrepit, impertinent, malevolent, decrepit, vapid, unkempt, repugnant, morbid, lurid, infantile and 38 more...
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