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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAM'NED, pp.
1. Sentenced to everlasting punishment in a future state; condemned.
2. a. Hateful; detestable; abominable;
A word chiefly used in profaneness by persons of vulgar manners.

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]
2: in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved] n
1: people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned" adv
1: in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (damneder; damnedest or damndest) Date: 1596 1. damnable <this damned smog> 2. complete, utter — often used as an intensive <a damned shame> 3. extraordinary — used in the superlative <the damnedest contraption you ever saw> II. adverb Date: 1757 extremely, very <a damned good job>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. colloq. --adj. damnable, infernal, unwelcome. --adv. extremely (damned hot; damned lovely). Phrases and idioms: damned well (as an emphatic) simply (you've damned well got to). do one's damnedest do one's utmost.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Damn Damn (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (d[a^]md or d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.] 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope. Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Damned Damned, a. 1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition. 2. Hateful; detestable; abominable. But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Damned is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry or frustrated. (INFORMAL, RUDE) They're a damned nuisance. ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] • Damned is also an adverb. We are making a damned good profit, I tell you that. ADV: ADV adj/adv 2. If someone says 'I'm damned if I'm going to do it' or 'I'll be damned if I'll do it', they are emphasizing that they do not intend to do something and think it is unreasonable for anyone to expect them to do it. (INFORMAL, RUDE) PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]

Moby Thesaurus

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