damned

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. Godforsaken.
2. Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something.

   Their damned lawyers can go to hell.

   I can't get this damned thing to work.

3. Used to express vehemently that one is not or does not do something, or refuses to be or do something.

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

   I'll be damned if I let him get away with that. (Strong assertion that you will not 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)
• Catalan: maleït (ca)
• 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
• 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 (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