blasted, ppl. a.
(ˈblɑːstɪd, -æ-)
1. Balefully or perniciously blown or breathed upon; stricken by meteoric or supernatural agency, as parching wind, lightning, an alleged malignant planet, the wrath and curse of heaven; blighted.
| 1552 Huloet, Blasted corne. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, iii. iv. 71 A blasted Sapling, wither'd vp. 1605 ― Macb. i. iii. 77 Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way. 1667 Milton P.L. x. 412 The blasted Starrs lookt wan. 1727 Thomson Summer 1152 Stretched below A lifeless groupe of blasted cattle lie. 1850 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom xxxvi. 318 A black, blasted tree. |
2. transf. and fig.; cf. blast v. 8.
| 1742 Collins Ode to Fear, Lest thou meet my blasted view. 1762 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxix. 168 The blasted credit of the Irish witnesses. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 548 Driven..from public life with blasted characters. |
3. Cursed, damned. In low language as an expression of reprobation and hatred. Also used adverbially.
| 1682 Dryden Medal 260 What Curses on thy blasted Name will fall. 1750 Chesterfield Lett. 8 Jan. (1870) 169 Colonel Chartres..who was, I believe, the most notorious blasted rascal in the world. 1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine (1858) xv. 204 Lord's sake be spry, for I'm blasted hungry! 1874 Pusey Lent. Serm. 79 Balaam, after the success of his blasted counsel. 1884 Gd. Words Nov. 767/1 Jim Black states that the ‘blasted’ railway has done away with those journeys. 1886 Leslie's Pop. Monthly Jan. 67/2 He's too blasted smart for an Indian. |
4. Under the influence of drugs or alcohol, intoxicated. Cf. blast v. 6 b. slang (chiefly U.S.).
| 1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 2 July 14/3 Today they [sc. addicts] get blasted. 1973 To Our Returned Prisoners of War (U.S. Office of Secretary of Defense) 2 Blasted, under the influence of drugs including alcohol... Usually indicates very high, but pleasantly so. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends ii. vi. 205 Den O'Coole forced his way to the bar... He was already blasted. 1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xxv. 255 He seemed as fog-bound as I was, a sweet-tempered English boy staying blasted on grass and coke. |