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Definition: Goddamned |
GoddamnedAdjective1. 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". Adverb1. (intensifier) extremely; "you are goddamn right!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goddamned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonyms: GoddamnedSynonyms: blame (adj), blamed (adj), blasted (adj), blessed (adj), damn (adj), damned (adj), darned (adj), deuced (adj), everlasting (adj), infernal (adj), goddam (adv), goddamn (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goddamned |
| English words defined with "goddamned": blame, blamed, blasted, blessed ♦ damn, damned, darned, deuced ♦ everlasting ♦ goddam, goddamn ♦ infernal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But it ain't too goddamned beau coup (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) The goddamned manager, that's who (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) Well that record is goin' through the goddamned roof (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Your own goddamned daughter, balled in the next room and you go with it. (Season of the Witch; writing credit: George A. Romero) What the hell does Counter Intelligence care about a bunch of goddamned books (Three Days of the Condor; writing credit: James Grady; Lorenzo Semple Jr.) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | You goddamned squatters |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Goddamned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goddamned" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goddamned s t | 2 |
cd goddamned | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goddamned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | dannato (bloody, damned, goddamn, ruddy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oddamnedgay.(various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งประà¸"าม (goddam, goddamn). (various references) | |
Turkish | kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, confounded, cursed, damn it, damn you, damned, flaming, goddamn, godforsaken, heck, ruddy, sod it), allah'ın cezası (bleeding, blinking, blithering, bugger, drat it, drat you, goddamn, ungodly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-g-m-n-o" | |
-2 letters: deodand, goddamn. | |
-3 letters: addend, dadoed, daemon, damned, danged, demand, dodged, dodgem, gadded, goaded, goddam, godded, madded, madden, moaned, nodded. | |
-4 letters: added, admen, agone, amend, among, anode, demon, dodge, dogma, domed, donga, gamed, genoa, genom, gnome, gonad, maned, mange, mango, menad, monad, monde, named, nomad, omega. | |
-5 letters: aeon, aged, agon, amen, dado, dago, dame, damn. | |
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