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say it: damd
damned is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "expletives used informally as intensifiers". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
“an infernal nuisance”
in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
“poor damned souls”
Christianity
people who are condemned to eternal punishment
“he felt he had visited the realm of the damned”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for damned come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.