screwed
adj.adj. in a very difficult or bad situation that you cannot fix. You use this when you are in trouble or have no chance of success.
adj. in a state of hopeless difficulty, failure, or ruin. Slang in register; carries a vulgar tone in some contexts and is unsuitable for formal or professional environments.
If I don't finish this report by morning, I'm screwed.
The team realized they were screwed when their star player was injured in the first five minutes of the game.
While the company attempted to project confidence during the press conference, internal emails revealed the board knew they were screwed as soon as the major merger fell through.
From screw + -ed. * The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives. * The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.
Typically follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'get'.
He is a screwed manHe is in troubleIn this sense, the word is used after a verb like 'to be', not before a noun to describe a person's character.