Damned

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damned \Damned\, a.
     1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned;
        consigned to perdition.
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     2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.


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              But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
              Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
     d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
     d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
     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 censure.
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              He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
        consign to perdition; to curse.
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     3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
        by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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              You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
              works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
              And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
                                                    --Pope.
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     Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
           and intensively.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  darned \darned\ adj.
     an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for {damned}; as, for
     no darned reason at all.
  
     Syn: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn,
          goddamned, gosh-darned.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  damned
       adj 1: 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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an
              infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed},
               {blessed}, {damn}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting},
               {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]
       2: in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned
          souls" [syn: {cursed}, {doomed}, {unredeemed}, {unsaved}]
       n : people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he
           had visited the realm of the damned"
       adv : in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely
             , endlessly persistent!" [syn: {damnably}, {cursedly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "damned":
     absolute, accursed, awful, awfully, big, blamed, blankety-blank,
     blasted, bleeding, blessed, blighted, blinding, blinking,
     blistering, bloody, blooming, complete, condemned, confounded,
     cursed, cussed, damn, damnable, damned spirits, darn, dashed,
     demonkind, demons, denizens of hell, doggone, done for, doomed,
     downright, evil spirits, execrable, extremely, goddamn, goddamned,
     godless, graceless, greatly, gross, hellish host, host of hell,
     hugely, infernal, inhabitants of Pandemonium, lost, lost souls,
     much, out-and-out, outright, perishing, powers of darkness, rank,
     reprobate, ruddy, shriftless, souls in hell, straight-out,
     the damned, the lost, unconverted, unmitigated, unredeemed,
     unregenerate, whacking, whopping