blasted

Subjected to an explosion.

Adjective

  1. Subjected to an explosion.
    • 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.
    • a blasted tree
    • 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; - 1846, [John...
  3. Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
    • BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees. Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk. - 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise...
    • 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 [...] - 1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane...
  4. Accursed; damned.
    • 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! - 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams]...
    • `I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath. - 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 9:
  5. Intoxicated, drunk.
    • Dude, we got blasted last night.

Synonyms

exploded damned drunk

Derived

blastedly unblasted

Adverb

  1. Damned; extremely.
    • That dog is so blasted stubborn.

Forms

more blasted most blasted

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of blast