damned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæmd/
• Homophone: dammed

Adjective

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

1. God-forsaken.
2. Variant of profane damn.

   His damned cards are scattered!

Usage notes

• Used as an example of something someone is not: Damned if I know; I'll be damned if I let him get away with that.

Synonyms

• (god-forsaken): See Thesaurus:doomed
• (profanity): See Thesaurus:damned

Derived terms

• ever-damned

Translations

god-forsaken

• Bulgarian: прокълнат (bg) (prokǎlnat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 該死的 (zh), 该死的 (zh) (gāisǐ de)

• Czech: proklatý, zatracený
• Erzya: сюдовт (sjudovt)
• Finnish: kirottu (fi)
• French: foutu (fr), maudit (fr), condamné (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
• 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 (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)

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 tense and past participle of damn

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, demand, madden, manded