Damned

Definition: Damned

Damned

Adjective

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".

2. (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls".

Adverb

1. In a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!".

Noun

1. People who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "damned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Damned

Inexpedience

Evil, wrong; depraved; shocking; reprehensible; (disapprove). hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic; (malevolent).

Crosswords: Damned

He's a God damned one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is. Four more to go (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

She'd look damned funny if she did. (Red Shift; writing credit: Alan Garner)

Then I suggest you take that damned thing to the corridor or some other part of the train where you obviously belong (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

Superman wore a cape! And I'll be damned if I stand by and let you say anything bad about him (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

So what the hell now, we've already been forever damned (FOLLOW YOU DOWN; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

The baddest man in the whole damned town (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; performing artist: Jim Croce)

Damned indecision and cursed pride (She's Out of My Life; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Be damned if (Why Can't This Be Love?; performing artist: Van Halen)

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Inn of the Damned (1974)

Incense for the Damned (1972)

Corruption of the Damned (1965)

House of the Damned (1963)

Children of the Damned (1963)

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Books

• Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles, Book III) (reference)

• Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief) (reference)

• Those Yankee rebels; being the true and amazing history of the audacious American Revolution as seen through British eyes and being a young people's version of Those damned rebels (reference)

• This seething ocean, that damned eagle (reference)

• The Spoils of War (The Damned, Book 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Underneath/Village of the Damned (reference)

• Village of the Damned (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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"Damned if we'll work for what they pay folks hereabouts." Crittenden County, Arkansas. Cotton workers on the road, carrying all they possess in the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Ah! you have refused the honest weariness of men, you shall have the sweat of the damned.

The damned howl and scream at one another, their torture and rage intensified by the presence of beings tortured and raging like themselves

Then, God grant me to Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "damned": be damned ♦ damned fool ♦ damned funny ♦ damned good job ♦ damned if i know ♦ every damned one ♦ he is a damned liar ♦ i will be damned if ♦ i'll be damned if ♦ it's a damned shame! ♦ the damned ♦ what a damned nuisance! ♦ what a damned nuisance! hang it!. Additional references.

Beginning with "damned": damned-all, damned-fool, damned-foolery.

Ending with "damned": god-damned.

Albanian

i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury), i dreqit (cotton-picking, devilish, so and so), i dënuar (con, condemned, convict, convicted, damning, doomed, fey). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملعون (abominable, accursed, cursed, damn, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, stupid, wicked), ‏محكوم عليه باللعنة, ‏لعين (abominable, accursed, bloody, cursed, evil, execrable, wicked), ‏رجيم (evil, regimen), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасно (almighty, awfully, cruelly, damn, damnably, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, remarkably, roaring, shocking, terribly, terrifically, thundering, to death), осъден (convict, convicted, convicted person, fated), прокълнат (accursed, accurst, cursed), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked). (various references)

Chinese 

�''骂 (Damning). (various references)

Czech

zpropadený (darned), zlořeèený (accursed, accurst), zatracený (blessed, bloody, blooming, confounded, darned, deuced, stupid), proklatý (damnatory). (various references)

Finnish

kirottu (confounded), kadotettu (lost). (various references)

French

diablement (darned), damnés, damnée, damné, damnâmes, damnèrent, damna, vachement (damnably), rudement (damnably), maudit (damn). (various references)

German

verdammt (accursed, blast, blast it, blasted, bleeding, blinking, bloody, condemns, confounded, confoundedly, cursedly, dammit, damn, damn it, darn, deuced, flaming, perishing, pesky, ruddy). (various references)

Greek 

κώλο- (bloody), καταρραμένος, καταραμένοσ (accurst, blasted, blessed, confounded, cursed, darn), κολασμένοσ, κολασμένος, τρομερά (confoundedly, formidably, terrbly, terribly, terrifically, terrifyingly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקולל (blasted, cursed), ארור (accursed, blasted, cursed), � ורא (bloody, dire, dread, fearful, frightful, hellish, shocking, terrible, terrific, unholy). (various references)

Hungarian

átkozottul (bally, deuced, deucedly, perishing), átkozott (accursed, bally, bang, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, cursed, curst, damn, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, goddamn, perishing). (various references)

Indonesian

kualat (accursed, struck down by a calamity), keparat (cursed, son of bitch!). (various references)

Italian

dannato (bloody, goddamn, goddamned, ruddy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

罰�"たり (accursed, cursed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばちあたり (accursed, cursed). (various references)

Korean 

비난하�" (Blamed, Condemned, Faulted, Reproached). (various references)

Manx

mollaghtagh (accursed, blasphemous, damnable, maledictory), imshee (damnable; elf, devilish, diabolical, imp), deyrit (condemned, convicted, sentenced). (various references)

Pig Latin

amnedday.(various references)

Portuguese

detestável (accursed, detestable, invidious, loathful, loathsome, nasty, odious, rancid), danado (darn, tarnation), condenado (condemned, convict, convicted, darn, doomed, fated, tarnation). (various references)

Romanian

damnat, teribil de (deadly, frightfully), straşnic de (clinking), proclet (accused, awful, cussed, terrible), osândit (accursed, convict, convicted, doomed, sentenced), jurat (accursed, cursed, juror, juryman, sworn), blestemat (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, darn, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), al naibii de (deucedly), al naibii (confounded, cursed, deuced, perishing, precious), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

Russian 

ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy), отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), адский (hellish, helluva, infernal, sulphurous, Tartarean), пагубный (baleful, calamitous, damnific, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, maleficent, malign, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate), osuđen (convicted). (various references)

Spanish

condenado (accursed, accurst, condemned, convicted, cotton-picking, darned, doom, doomed, fated, indicted, stricken). (various references)

Swedish

fördömd (blasted, cursed, cussed, lost), förbaskade, förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damn, damnable, darned, deuced, devilish, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy), förbannad (accursed, accurst, bloody, cotton-picking, cursed, infernal). (various references)

Turkish

son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), lanetli (accursed, accurst, cursed, cussed, damnable, dratted, effing), lanet olası (blasted, blinking, blithering, bloody, blooming, cursed, damn, damn it, damnable, darned, imprecatory, ruddy), lânetlenmiş, kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, confounded, cursed, damn it, damn you, flaming, goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken, heck, ruddy, sod it), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), fazlasıyla (amply, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, parlous, precious, strongly, superfluously), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, cursed, damn, darned, deuced, doggone, flaming, godforsaken, what a bind), allah kahretsin (blast it, bugger, bugger it, damn it, damnation, dash it), allah belasını versin, aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

осудженний, огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, hideous, loathful, nasty, noisome, offensive, sickening), проклятий (accursed, accurst, bloody, blushing, cursed, cussed, infernal, something). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá lắm, hết sức; vô cùng, cực kỳ (beastly, deadly, dogged, frightfuly, mortally, most, parlous, ripping, thundering, whacking), bị đoạ đ� y đáng ghét, bị đ� y địa ngục. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "damned": damneder, damnedest, damnedests. (additional references)

Words ending with "damned": bedamned, goddamned. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: demand, madden.

-1 letter: admen, amend, maned, menad, named.

-2 letters: amen, dame, damn, dead, dean, made, mane, mead, mean, mend, name, nema.

-3 letters: add, and, ane, dad, dam, den, end, mad, mae, man, med, men, nae, nam.

-4 letters: ad, ae, am, an, de, ed, em, en, ma, me, na, ne.

+1 letter: amended, demands, maddens.

+2 letters: addendum, bedamned, bemadden, damndest, damneder, dampened, demanded, demander, demeaned, handmade, maddened, mandated, redemand, remanded, undamped.

+3 letters: andromeda, bemaddens, commanded, damndests, damnedest, damnified, demandant, demanders, demanding, demantoid, diademing, diamonded, dominated, dreamland, dynamited, emendated, endamaged, goddamned, maddening, mansarded, marinaded, maundered, meandered, middleman, mordanted, redemands, unadmired, unamended, undamaged, undreamed.

+4 letters: admonished, andromedas, bemaddened, damascened, damnedests, deaminated, demandable, demandants, demantoids, dendrogram, didynamies, dismantled, dreamlands, endodermal, handmaiden, maidenhead, maidenhood, mandamused, manhandled, manifolded, meadowland, misbranded, mishandled, promenaded, randomized, redemanded, unadmitted, undismayed, unmediated.