damned
n. uncountablen. people who are believed to be punished forever in hell after they die. It is also used in a more general way to describe people who are very unlucky or forgotten by society.
n. those condemned to eternal punishment in a theological context; by extension, individuals suffering a miserable or hopeless fate. Plural in construction and typically preceded by the definite article.
The old stories tell of the souls of the damned.
In the epic poem, the narrator descends into the underworld to witness the suffering of the damned.
The novelist portrays the residents of the slum not as mere statistics, but as the damned of the modern city, trapped by systemic neglect and cycles of poverty.
Functions as a collective noun; always takes the definite article 'the' and a plural verb.