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DAMNED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are condemned to eternal punishment
Example:
he felt he had visited the realm of the damned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("damned" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Derivation:
damned (expletives used informally as intensifiers)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expletives used informally as intensifiers
Example:
an infernal nuisance
Synonyms:
blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal
Classified under:
Similar:
cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Derivation:
damned (people who are condemned to eternal punishment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Example:
poor damned souls
Synonyms:
cursed; damned; doomed; unredeemed; unsaved
Classified under:
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
Domain category:
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)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb damn
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a damnable manner
Example:
kindly Arthur--so damnably, politely, endlessly persistent!
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
I have got such a horror of the damned brutes from recent events that I cannot stand them, and I went out to have a shot, as I have been doing of late of evenings, whenever I have seen one.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me. ‘Nothin’ doin’!’ says he, and he meant it, too, but the last hundred did it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It’s like your damned himpudence to say so,” said an angry voice from the throng behind him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"An' I don't give a rap. I'm too damned glad to see 'm back. Watch 'm waltz, eh? It's like silk. Who'd blame any girl?"
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And damned glad you were to let them have it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"Well, I'll be damned!" he enunciated slowly and solemnly.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Did I break through one of your rings, that you spread that damned ice on the causeway?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father’s hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Damned glad I am to hear it, Ned!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And now you feed me, when then you let me starve, forbade me your house, and damned me because I wouldn't get a job.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
