Blasted
['blɑːstɪd] or ['blæstɪd]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Blast
(a.) Blighted; withered.
(a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.
(a.) Rent open by an explosive.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- Thus are we left, said Adrian, two melancholy blasted trees, where once a forest waved. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His grip has been upon me these twenty years, and he has blasted my life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Helena blasted it out when she was searching for the true Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That Eugene Wrayburn, for his wife's sake, set him aside and left him to crawl along his blasted course. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You utter blasted damned fool. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There's a place way out down by the quarters, where you can see a black, blasted tree, and the ground all covered with black ashes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Her desires had been blasted, her schemes overthrown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet you WANT to be sightless, you WANT to be blasted, you don't want it any different. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Wilmer