damned

/dæmd/
/dæmd/
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Other forms: damnedest

Definitions of damned
  1. noun
    people who are condemned to eternal punishment
    “he felt he had visited the realm of the damned”
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    type of:
    people
    (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  2. adjective
    in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
    “poor damned souls”
    synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved
    lost
    spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
  3. adjective
    expletives used informally as intensifiers
    synonyms:
    cursed, curst
    deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
  4. adverb
    in a damnable manner
    synonyms: cursedly, damnably
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