damned

adj., damned·er (dăm'dər), damned·est (dăm'dĭst).

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).

adjective

1. Condemned, especially to hell: doomed, lost. Idioms: gone to blazes. See reward/punish/deserve.
2. So annoying or detestable as to deserve condemnation: accursed, blasted, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, damn, darn, execrable, infernal. Informal blamed. Chiefly British blooming, ruddy. See like/dislike.
3. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter. Informal flat-out, positive. Chiefly British blooming. See big/small/amount, limited/unlimited.

adj

Definition: hateful, unwelcome
Antonyms: blessed, cherished, favored, likeable, loveable, nice, praiseworthy, welcome

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: people who are condemned to eternal punishment

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The adjective damned has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: expletives used informally as intensifiers
  Synonyms: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal

Meaning #2: (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell
  Synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved

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The adverb damned has one meaning:

Meaning #1: in a damnable manner
  Synonyms: damnably, cursedly

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