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Definitions for damned
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. damnedadjective

    people who are condemned to eternal punishment

    "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"

  2. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernaladjective

    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"; "an infernal nuisance"

  3. cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsavedadverb

    in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell

    "poor damned souls"

  4. damned, damnably, cursedlyadverb

    in a damnable manner

    "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!"

Wiktionary

  1. damnedadverb

    Very.

    What's so damned important about a football game?

  2. damnedadjective

    god-forsaken

  3. damnedadjective

    Variant of profane damn.

    His damned cards are scattered!

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Damnedpart. adj.

    Hateful; detestable; abhorred; abominable.

    Etymology: from damn.

    Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
    A couch for luxury and damned incest. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    But, oh, what damned minutes tells he o’er,
    Who doats, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves. William Shakespeare.

    Dare not
    To brand the spotless virtue of my prince
    With falshoods of most base and damn’d contrivance. Nicholas Rowe.

Wikipedia

  1. Damned

    Damned is the second single taken from Eva Avilas Give Me the Music album. The single reached Chum FMs 10 Most Wanted countdown numerous times and peaked at 21 on the CHUM Chart and 83 on the Canadian Hot 100.

ChatGPT

  1. damned

    Damned generally refers to being condemned or declared to be under a curse, often associated with being punished by God or a divine power. It can also be used informally to express annoyance or surprise, and can describe something that is considered extremely difficult, irritating, or displeasing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Damned

    of Damn

  2. Damnedadjective

    sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition

  3. Damnedadjective

    hateful; detestable; abominable

Wikidata

  1. Damned

    "Damned" is the second single taken from Eva Avila's Give Me the Music album. The single reached Chum FMs 10 Most Wanted countdown numerous times and peaked at 21 on the CHUM Chart and 83 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Anagrams for damned »

  1. madden

  2. demand

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of damned in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of damned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of damned in a Sentence

  1. Robert Burton:

    Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  2. Paul Lopez:

    Just release the damned thing already, you guys have been dragging on this marketing hype for years and your competitors are getting to market well ahead of you.

  3. Ed Dorff:

    It’s one of those things where you’re gonna be damned if you do and damned if you don’t, you balance the concern for safety with whether or not this disruption is going to be worthwhile or not.

  4. Lois McMaster Bujold:

    His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

  5. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his:

    Publish and be damned!

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