Meaning

2 senses

  1. Capable of being damned.

  2. Deserving of damnation; very bad.

    That damnable fridge has stopped working again.

    verdammenswert, verdammungswürdig

    deserving to be execrated

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Those damnable pigeons have again dirtied my car.

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  2. Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

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Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
deserving of damnation:

Origin

From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surfac

From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn + -able.

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Forms

more damnable, most damnable
Comparativemore damnable Lesson
Superlativemost damnable Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Deriveddamnablenessdamnably

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
damnB2damnation

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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