blasted — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Subjected to an explosion.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.

2. Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   a blasted tree

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   In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;

3. Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • of a tree

   Examples

   BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees. Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.

   A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]

4. Accursed; damned.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.

   You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!

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   `I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.

   With the evidence before me, gathering each day I doahn't wind the blasted Watch,— even so, I can't believe in it…?

   “Whatever you do, don’t let that blasted woman in!”

5. Intoxicated, drunk.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Slang

   Examples

   Dude, we got blasted last night.

Adverb

1. Damned; extremely.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

   Examples

   That dog is so blasted stubborn.

Adjective

1. expletives used informally as intensifiers

   Synonyms

   blameblamedblesseddamndamneddarneddeucedgoddamgoddamngoddamnedinfernal

   Examples

   he's a blasted idiot

   it's a blamed shame

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   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