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damned  (dmd)

adj. damned·er (dmdr), damned·est (dmdst)

1. Condemned, especially to eternal punishment.

2. Informal Deserving condemnation; detestable: this damned weather.

3. Used as an intensive: a damned fool.

adv. damneder, damnedest

Used as an intensive: a damned poor excuse.

n.

Souls doomed to eternal punishment.

Regional Note: There are many regional variants, mostly euphemisms, for damned, both as an oath and as a mild intensive. Southern exclamations and intensives tend to begin with dad-, a euphemism for "god"hence dadblamed, dadblasted, dadburn, and dadgum. Dadgum can be combined with it in the interjection dadgummit. Another such euphemism is the better-known doggone, probably originally Southern but now widespread. Like dadgum, doggone is used as a mild intensive: "The best doggone deals in Alabama" (billboard in Montgomery). Doggone likewise appears in phrasal interjections: Doggonit, I dropped my hammer. A common Southern and South Midland variant of damned is durn, also euphemistic and relatively mild, as in this snatch of Baltimore dialogue: "If that's not just the weirdest durn thing I ever laid eyes on" (Anne Tyler).

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damned

Adjective

condemned to hell

Adverb, adj

Slang

1. extreme or extremely: a damned good try

2. used to indicate amazement or refusal: I'm damned if I'll do it!

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Damned the souls in hell, 1393.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	damned - people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Adj.	1.	damned - 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" blame, blamed, blasted, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, damn, goddamn, blessed, infernal cursed, curst - deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
	2.	damned - in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" unredeemed, unsaved, cursed, doomed Christian religion, Christianity - a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior lost - spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
Adv.	1.	damned - in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" cursedly, damnably

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damned

adjective (Slang) infernal, accursed, detestable, revolting, infamous, confounded, despicable, abhorred, hateful, loathsome, abominable, freaking (slang), chiefly U.S.