'Damned' definitions:
Definition of 'damned'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly]
adjective
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"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
adjective
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved]
noun
People who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"
Definition of 'Damned'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. [1913 Webster]
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Damned'
From: GCIDE
- Damned \Damned\, a.
- 1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hateful; detestable; abominable. [1913 Webster]
- But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'damned'
From: 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. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'damned'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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