damned Definition

damn
verb damned, damning

1. relig.
To sentence someone to never-ending punishment in hell.
2. To declare someone or something to be useless or worthless.

Thesaurus: criticize, denounce, censure, castigate; Antonym: praise.
3. To suggest or prove the guiltiness of someone.

exclamation

1. Expressing annoyance or disappointment.

Form: damn it (often)

adj

1. colloq
Used for emphasis: annoying; hateful.
Example: the damn cold

adverb

1. colloq
Used for emphasis.
Example: It's damn cold

Derivative: damning

Very critical.

Proving or suggesting guilt.
Thesaurus: incriminating, accusatorial, condemnatory, inculpatory, implicative, dooming, ruinous, serious, fatal.

Idiom: as near as damn it

See under near.

Idiom: be damned if one will do something

colloq
To refuse to do it.

Idiom: damn all

colloq
Nothing at all.

Idiom: damn someone or something with faint praise

To praise them or it so unenthusiastically as to seem disapproving.

Idiom: not give a damn

colloq
Not to care at all.
Thesaurus: not care, be indifferent.

Etymology: 13c: from Latin damnare to condemn.

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damned
adj damnedest (superlative)

1. relig.
Sentenced to damnation.
Thesaurus: doomed, condemned, accursed; Antonym: blessed, saved.
2. colloq
Annoying, hateful, etc.
Thesaurus: bad, undesirable, lousy, reprobate, despicable, hateful, loathsome, detestable, infernal.
3. Those sentenced to everlasting punishment (see the 4b). See also damn.

Form: the damned

adverb

1. colloq
Extremely; very.
Example: damned cold

Idiom: do one's damnedest

colloq
To do one's utmost; to try as hard as possible.