damned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæmd/

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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: see Thesaurus:doomed

   • 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.

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 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

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) Luxembourgish: verdäiwelt, louder 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, réprobo (es) Turkish: lanetli (tr) Ukrainian: проклятий (prokljatyj)

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

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?

Verb

damned

1. simple past and past participle of damn

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, demand, madden, manded