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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BL'ASTED, pp. Affected by some cause that checks growth, injures, impairs, destroys, or renders abortive; split by an explosion of gunpowder.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1540 1. damaged by or as if by an explosive, lightning, wind, or supernatural force <upon this blasted heath — Shakespeare> <a blasted apple tree> 2. damned, detestable <this blasted weather> 3. slang intoxicated from drugs or alcohol

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --attrib.adj. damned; annoying (that blasted dog!). --adv. colloq. damned; extremely (it's blasted cold).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blast Blast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blasting.] 1. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. --Gen. xii. 6. 2. Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. I'll cross it, though it blast me. --Shak. Blasted with excess of light. --T. Gray. 3. To confound by a loud blast or din. Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. --Shak. 4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blasted Blast"ed, a. 1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. --Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. --Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. --Wordsworth.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Some people use blasted to express anger or annoyance at something or someone. (INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) ADJ: ADJ n [feelings] 2. A blasted landscape has very few plants or trees, and makes you feel sad or depressed when you look at it. (LITERARY) ...the blasted landscape where the battle was fought. = bleak ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

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