damned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæmd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æmd
• Homophone: dammed

Adjective

damned (comparative damneder or damnder or more damned, superlative damnedest or damndest or most damned)

1. Godforsaken.

   Synonyms: accursed, fey; ever-damned, reprobate; see also Thesaurus:doomed, Thesaurus:godforsaken

   • 1982, Iron Maiden, “Children of the Damned”:

     You're children of the damned // like candles, watch them burn // burning in the light // you'll burn again tonight.

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:damned

   Their damned lawyers can go to hell.

   I can't get this damned thing to work.

   • 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:

     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?”

3. Ellipsis of I'll be damned.

   Damned if I know. (strong assertion that you do not know)

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

Translations

god-forsaken — see also doomed

• Afrikaans: verdoem, verdomp
• Bulgarian: прокълнат (bg) (prokǎlnat)
• Catalan: maleït (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 該死的 / 该死的 (zh) (gāisǐ de)

• Czech: proklatý, zatracený (cs)
• Erzya: сюдовт (śudovt)
• Finnish: kirottu (fi)
• French: foutu (fr), maudit (fr), condamné (fr), perdu (fr)
• Galician: condenado, maldito
• German: verdammt (de), verflucht (de)
• Greek: καταραμένος (el) m (kataraménos)
• Hebrew: ארור (he) m (arur), מקולל m (mekulal)
• Hungarian: kárhozott (hu), elkárhozott (hu)
• Indonesian: bedebah (id)
• Italian: dannato (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: bomboclaat, bloodclaat, rassclaat
• Japanese: くそいまいましい (kuso-imaimashii), 罰当たり (ばちあたり, bachiatari), 忌まわしい (ja) (いまわしい, imawashii)
• Latin: damnātus, condemnātus
• Luxembourgish: verdäiwelt, louder
• Macedonian: проклет (proklet)
• Polish: przeklęty (pl)
• Portuguese: condenado (pt), maldito (pt), amaldiçoado (pt)
• Russian: прокля́тый (ru) (prokljátyj), трекля́тый (ru) (trekljátyj), чёртовый (ru) (čórtovyj)
• Slovak: prekliaty, zatratený
• Spanish: maldito (es), damnado (desus.), réprobo (es)
• Turkish: lanetli (tr)
• Ukrainian: проклятий (prokljatyj)

variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something — see also damn

• Esperanto: damninda (literally “damnable”)
• Hungarian: átkozott (hu), rohadt (hu), nyavalyás (hu)
• Polish: cholerny (pl), pieprzony (pl)

Adverb

damned (comparative more damned, superlative most damned)

1. (mildly vulgar) Very.

   What's so damned important about a football game?

   • 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:

     […] 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.”

Verb

damned

1. simple past and past participle of damn

Further reading

• “damned”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “damned”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, demand, madden, manded