DAMN

blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal

(adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers; “he’s a blasted idiot”; “it’s a blamed shame”; “a blame cold winter”; “not a blessed dime”; “I’ll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I’ll do any such thing”; “he’s a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”; “a deuced idiot”; “an infernal nuisance”

damn, goddamn

(adjective) used as expletives; “oh, damn (or goddamn)!”

bloody, damn, all-fired, all-firedly

(adverb) extremely; “you are bloody right”; “Why are you so all-fired aggressive?”

damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam

(noun) something of little value; “his promise is not worth a damn”; “not worth one red cent”; “not worth shucks”

curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict

(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; “The bad witch cursed the child”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)

(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.

To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.

• You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.

(profane) To curse; put a curse upon.

(archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.

Adjective

damn (not comparable)

(mildly profane) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

Synonyms

see also damned

Adverb

damn (not comparable)

(mildly profane) Very; extremely.

Interjection

damn

(mildly profane) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:dammit

Noun

damn (plural damns)

The use of "damn" as a curse.

(mildly profane) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

(mildly profane) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

Anagrams

• MDNA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd

Source: Wiktionary


Damn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning.] Etym: [OE. damnen dap), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]

1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.

2. (Theol.)

Definition: To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Damn, v. i.

Definition: To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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