damned
(a.)被咒罵的,該死的(ad.)非常
Damned a.
1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. --Shak.
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Damn v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned p. pr. & vb. n. Damning ]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak.
2. Theol. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.
Note: ☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
damned
adj 1: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter";
"not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or
darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's
a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced
idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an
infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed,
blessed, damn, darned, deuced, everlasting,
goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
2: in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned
souls" [syn: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved]
n : people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he
had visited the realm of the damned"
adv : in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely
, endlessly persistent!" [syn: damnably, cursedly]