DANGED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

danged 1 of 2

adjective

as in freaking

deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure that danged company lost our payment again

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verb

past tense of dang

as in darned

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Recent Examples of danged

Adjective

The Mets and Astros aren’t even in the danged thing. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for danged

Adjective

That little freaking weasel kept me on my toes the whole game.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026
And that's what Simon hasn't learned how to do yet, which is to just go and get a freaking life.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 31 July 2026

Definition of freaking

Verb

Others proclaim that we should be darned happy that AI seems to work.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Much is made of the iconography of the character of Mary Poppins — one of cinema's most famous, hyperbole be darned — but perhaps not enough is owed to how Julie Andrews, on the cusp of 30, simultaneously brought green charisma and decades of wisdom to the magical, practical nanny.

— Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of darned

Adjective

The cursed island town in Widow’s Bay has summoned all kinds of supernatural entities, much to the dismay of its residents.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Circus of the Damned — An evil ringmaster tries to restore his cursed carnival with a new cast of clowns.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of cursed

Adjective

The symbol of an institution that for decades has prepared many of Ukraine’s top public finance officials and ministers sat bomb-blasted and unusable.

— Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
With more than a dozen varieties grown in and around SoCal, in 2026 alone, heads (of cabbage) will roll if Angelenos can’t get their fix of this vitamin-rich, potassium-laden, calcium-blasted antioxidant VIP in 2026.

— Rebecca Leib, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026

Definition of blasted

Adjective

When Moore left the game after an awful hit from a USC linebacker, Raiola stepped up and looked even better.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
But coming off the back of that, there was all of this legislation that was pretty awful and generally, there were a lot of homophobic attitudes, still quite extreme, even as late as the 1990s.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of awful

Adjective

And then none of it mattered because his special teams bailed him out with a big kick return (thanks to a terrible decision by Eagles coach Nick Sirianni to even allow a kick return in the first place) followed by a walk-off field goal.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
The story follows the transformation of Adriana (Colin), a woman shattered by a terrible murder and who discovers the strength to start over, driven by an unquenchable thirst for justice.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

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