DARNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darned mean? 

• DARNED (adjective)
  The adjective DARNED has 1 sense:

1. expletives used informally as intensifiers

  Familiarity information: DARNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expletives used informally as intensifiers

Synonyms:

blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal

Context example:

an infernal nuisance

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

Now that the mining had ceased, Edith Nelson turned over the fire-building and the dish-washing to the men, while she darned their socks and mended their clothes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Peggotty darned away at a stocking as long as she could see, and then sat with it drawn on her left hand like a glove, and her needle in her right, ready to take another stitch whenever there was a blaze.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"The darned cuss."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That's it! said Jo to herself, when she at length discovered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was burdened with the name of Bhaer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)