damned
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Definition of damned
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Synonyms & Antonyms for damned
Synonyms: Adjective
absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
Synonyms: Adverb
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
Antonyms: Adverb
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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Examples of damned in a Sentence
Adjective
only a damned fool would say such a thingAdverb
it's a damned fine dayRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob has given his front office a blank check to assemble the roster, luxury taxes be damned. — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, "Why the Warriors’ No. 28 pick is pivotal in franchise’s future," 20 June 2019 So why not simply launch a crew of small humans, sexes be damned? — National Geographic, "Here’s why women may be the best suited for spaceflight," 17 June 2019 We were told it’s four times as powerful as the Xbox One X, which already had the capabilities of a GeForce GTX 1060—pretty damned impressive for a console. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "Microsoft's next-gen Xbox 'Project Scarlett' console packs Ryzen, Radeon Navi, SSDs, and ray-tracing," 9 June 2019 Your Aunt & Uncle Tabloid reports be damned—you are bound to be close to William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, "An Open Letter to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's New Royal Baby," 7 May 2019 The horror genre loves to contemplate the absence of faith in films like The Exorcist, The Omen, and even The Nun, movies where souls are eternally damned and retribution rises from a very dark place. — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, "Us Offers a Terrifying Vision of Judgement Day," 26 Mar. 2019 With Matty Bovan, Richard Quinn, and Michael Halpern all in that same Central Saint Martins MA dress-and-be-damned vanguard, there is certain to be more of that ilk to come. — Sarah Mower, Vogue, "The Brexit Deadline Is Looming—Here’s How It Will Affect London Fashion Week," 14 Feb. 2019 Some runners, for example, try to blaze through the game as fast as possible, completion rates be damned, while others try to finish every single part of the game. — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, "Watching a Breath of the Wild speedrunner collect Koroks is mesmerizing," 15 Dec. 2018 This is ageism-be-damned, a fact not lost on the likes of Sephora and Club Monaco, which have flocked to collaborate with her. — Mark Holgate, Vogue, "Microbiologist Turned Personal Trainer Grece Ghanem Is Instagram’s New Icon of Ageless Style," 5 Sep. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb
Remember, Nvidia revealed its Pascal GPU at GTC 2016 in the form of the Tesla P100, and that full-fat version eventually trickled down into the Titan Xp, with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti coming damned close. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Nvidia's monstrous Volta GPU appears, packed with 21 billion transistors and 5,120 cores," 10 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'damned.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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