nnoun.attributesomething of little valueSynset:darn hoot red cent shit shucks tinker's dam tinker's damn
Examples:- his promise is not worth a damn
- not worth one red cent
- not worth shucks
Derivationally Related Form:shitty
Hypernyms:ineptitude worthlessness
Inherited Hypernyms:damnworthlessnessqualityattributeabstractionentity
vverb.communicationwish harm upon; invoke evil uponSynset:anathemise anathemize bedamn beshrew curse imprecate maledict
Examples:- The bad witch cursed the child
Antonyms:bless
Derivationally Related Form:damnationimprecationcursemaledictiondamnatory
Hypernyms:arouse bring up call down call forth conjure conjure up evoke invoke put forward raise stir
Inherited Hypernyms:curseraisecall upmake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody
adj satadj.allexpletives used informally as intensifiersSynset:blame blamed blasted blessed damned darned deuced goddam goddamn goddamned infernal
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:blessed
Derivationally Related Form:damned
Inherited Hypernyms:blasted
Similar to:cursed curst
advadv.allextremelyDomain Usage:intensifierintensive
Synset:all-fired all-firedly bloody
Examples:- you are bloody right
- Why are you so all-fired aggressive?
Pertainyms:all-fired
Inherited Hypernyms:bloody