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damned adjective [ damd ]

• (in Christian belief) condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell.
• "damned sinners"
Similar: cursed, accursed, doomed, lost, condemned to hell, execrated, anathematized, excommunicated, jinxed,
• used to emphasize or express anger or frustration with someone or something.
• "it's none of your damned business"
Similar: blasted, damn, flaming, precious, confounded, pestilential, rotten, wretched, blessed, flipping, blinking, blooming, blimming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing, goddam, plurry, bally, ruddy, deuced, cursed, accursed, damnable, fucking, frigging, pissing, shitty, sodding, chickenshit, pissant, fecking,

damned adverb

• used for emphasis or to express anger or frustration.
• "she's too damned arrogant"

damn verb

• (in Christian belief) be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell.
• "be forever damned with Lucifer"
• criticize strongly.
• "the book damns her husband"
Similar: condemn, censure, criticize, attack, denounce, deplore, decry, revile, inveigh against, blame, chastise, castigate, berate, upbraid, reprimand, rebuke, reprove, reprehend, take to task, find fault with, deprecate, disparage, slam, hammer, lay into, cane, blast, slate, slag off, have a go at, slash, reprobate, excoriate, vituperate, arraign, objurgate, anathematize,
Opposite: acclaim, praise,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French dam(p)ner, from Latin dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’, from damnum ‘loss, damage’.

damned well

• used for emphasis when the speaker is angry or irritated.
"you can damned well tell him yourself!"



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