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😩 Very tired 💥 Ruined or hopeless 🤕 To injure
buggered

buggered

9.9
In serious trouble with no easy way out
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌɡərd/
  • NSFW
translation icon : estropeado
  • After the storm, the old roof was so buggered it needed to be replaced entirely.

Examples

  • The car is buggered and won't start.

  • He realized he was buggered when he lost his wallet and phone on the same day.

  • If the car breaks down here, we're completely buggered with no way to get home.

  • I feel completely buggered after that long hike.

  • If the car breaks down here, we're completely buggered with no way to get home.

  • After the storm, the old roof was so buggered it needed to be replaced entirely.

  • He realized he was buggered when he lost his wallet and phone on the same day.

Synonyms

bungled
vsbuggered
4 6.1

Made worse because someone handled it badly

describes a general hopeless ruined state with informal vulgar tone

Antonyms

intact
304 3.7

Whole and not damaged or missing any parts

functional
81 3.2

Working correctly so it can be used

How Damaged

destroyed
2.8
buggered
  • NSFW
9.9
broken
31 1.0
damaged
1 1.1
intact
304 3.7

Surface Forms

buggered positive

Morphology

buggered = bugger (opaque) = bugger + ed

Formed from the verb 'bugger' + '-ed', but the meaning 'hopeless/ruined' is an informal idiomatic extension and not directly derivable from the base.

Etymology

Buggered comes from the older insult bugger, which people began to use for things that are 'messed up' or ruined. That's why buggered now often means 'hopeless' or 'seriously damaged'.