Darned

Definition: Darned

Darned

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".

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Date "darned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Darned

Crosswords: Darned

You're darned tootin' (Fargo; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen)

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Books

• The Darned Nuisances (reference)

• This Darned Elusive Happiness (reference)

• When There's No More Room in Heck the Darned Will Walk the Earth (reference)

  (more book examples)

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They have red tights which wrinkle, and you can see their elbows darned with white thread

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Ending with "darned": swiss-darned, well-darned.

Czech

zpropadený (damned), zpropadanì, zatracený (blessed, bloody, blooming, confounded, damned, deuced, stupid), zatracenì (blast, damnation, dash it, doggone). (various references)

French

diablement (damned), fichu. (various references)

German

verflixt (blessed, blinking, blooming, confounded, confoundedly, darn, shucks, tricky), ausgebessert (darnd, refitted, repaired). (various references)

Italian

maledettamente (damned). (various references)

Pig Latin

arnedday.(various references)

Portuguese

maldito (accursed, accurst, bally, blasted, cursed, cussed, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed), enervante (nagging, provocative, provoking), amaldiçoado (accursed, cursed). (various references)

Russian 

проклятый (accursed, bloody, cursed, curst, darn, doggone, dratted, flipping, frigging). (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damn, damnable, damned, deuced, devilish, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy). (various references)

Turkish

son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, 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), lanet olası (blasted, blinking, blithering, bloody, blooming, cursed, damn, damn it, damnable, damned, imprecatory, ruddy), fazlasıyla (amply, damned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, parlous, precious, strongly, superfluously), belâ (affliction, bore, calamity, curse, damnation, evil, ill, misfortune, nuisance, pest, plague, rock, scourge, tribulation, trouble), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, cursed, damn, damned, deuced, doggone, flaming, godforsaken, what a bind), 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, damned, 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)

Derivations

Words beginning with "darned": darneder, darnedest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Darned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arned, danned, D'arfet, Darinda, darked, darknedd, darndest, darne, darnes, Darney, darnis, D'arzew, Dearne, derden, derne, Dorendra, dranked, drend, Durendal, Ederney, oarned. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dander.

-1 letter: adder, dared, denar, dread, readd, redan.

-2 letters: dare, darn, dead, dean, dear, earn, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, redd, rend.

-3 letters: add, and, ane, are, dad, den, ear, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red.

-4 letters: ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed, en, er, na, ne, re.

+1 letter: adorned, branded, danders, dandier, dandler, daunder, drained.

+2 letters: adherend, brandied, candider, credenda, damneder, dandered, dandlers, dangered, darkened, darndest, darneder, daunders, deadener, demander, deranged, dreading, endeared, gandered, gardened, hardened, ordained, pandered, pardoned, readding, redemand, remanded, riddance, stranded, undraped, ungraded, wandered.

+3 letters: adherends, adjourned, andradite, andromeda, anhydride, bartended, broadened, dandering, darndests, darnedest, daundered, deadeners, degrading, demanders, denatured, deodorant, deraigned, detrained, downgrade, dragooned, dreamland, gadrooned, garlanded, glandered, hagridden, indurated, laddering, laundered, mansarded, marinaded, maundered, meandered, mordanted, niggarded, nongraded, poniarded, readorned, redemands, redundant, rehandled, reinvaded, renegaded, riddances, serenaded, slandered, transuded, unabraded, unadmired, unadorned, unawarded, unbraided, unbranded, undercard, undergrad, underhand, underlaid, underpaid, undrained, undreamed, unguarded, verandaed.