blasted
Damned or aggravating, said without the hard cuss word.
Also called dad-blasted.
Updated September 21, 2026
blasted pronunciation
/BLAS-tid/
Meaning
A mild intensifier for something that won't cooperate or has you steamed. The blasted gate sticks. That blasted dog dug under the fence again. Close kin to blamed and dad-blasted, used when damn would get you a look from Mama.
How folks use it
- “I can't get this blasted lid off.”
- “That blasted rooster wakes the whole hollow at four.”
Origin and etymology
Blasted meant blighted or cursed long before it stood in for damned. The euphemism sense shows up by the late 1600s in English. American rural speech kept it alive as everyday frustration talk, often in compounds like dad-blasted.