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fucked

adj.
C1 Advanced US //ˈfəkt// UK //fˈʌkt// fucked Slang Vulgar

adj. in a very bad situation where you have no hope of success. You use this when something is broken, ruined, or impossible to fix.

adj. utterly ruined, broken, or in an inescapable state of failure or misfortune. Highly vulgar in register; used predicatively to describe a hopeless situation or a malfunctioning object.


SIMPLE

The car engine is completely fucked.

CONTEXTUAL

If we don't finish this report by midnight, we are absolutely fucked for the meeting tomorrow.

COMPLEX

The hard drive is so badly damaged that the data is likely fucked beyond any hope of professional recovery, leaving us with no choice but to start the project from scratch.

Synonyms
Origin

From fuck + -ed.

Usage

Typically follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'get'.

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