damned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæmd/
• Rhymes: -æmd
• Homophone: dammed

Adjective

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

1. Godforsaken.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:doomed

   • 1982, Iron Maiden (lyrics and music), “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. Short for I'll be damned.

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

Derived terms

• be damned
• Billy-be-damned
• damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
• damned well
• ever-damned
• fore-damned
• I'll be damned
• purser rigged and parish damned

 

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)
• German: verdammt (de), verflucht (de)
• Greek: καταραμένος (el) m (kataraménos)
• Hebrew: ארור (he) m (arur), מקולל m (mekulal)
• Hungarian: átkozott (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)
• Polish: przeklęty (pl) m
• Portuguese: condenado (pt), maldito (pt), amaldiçoado (pt)
• Russian: прокля́тый (ru) (prokljátyj), трекля́тый (ru) (trekljátyj), чёртовый (ru) (čórtovyj)
• Slovak: prekliaty, zatratený
• Spanish: maldito (es)
• Turkish: lanetli (tr)
• Ukrainian: проклятий (prokljatyj)

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