damn

English Online Dictionary. What means damn‎? What does damn mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæm/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [dɛəm], [deəm], [dɛːm]
• Homophone: dam
• Rhymes: -æm

Verb

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

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

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

   Synonyms: convict, doom
3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

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

   Synonyms: anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify

   • 1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell

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

5. (sometimes vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.

   Synonyms: comminate, execrate, imprecate

6. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.

   Synonyms: ban, execrate, point the bone

   • c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury

     […] while I inwardly damn.

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Adjective

damn (not comparable)

1. (sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:damned

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Adverb

damn (not comparable)

1. (sometimes vulgar) Very; extremely.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:extremely

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Interjection

damn

1. (sometimes vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dammit

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Noun

damn (plural damns)

1. (sometimes vulgar) The word "damn" employed as a curse.

2. (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

3. (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

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Anagrams

• d-man, Mand, NDMA, NMDA, nam'd, mand, MDNA, mDNA