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]
- Rhymes: -æm
- Homophone: dam
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.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
- (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
- […] while I inwardly damn.
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
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Adjective
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:damned
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Adverb
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.
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Interjection
damn
- (mildly 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)
- The word "damn" employed as a curse.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
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Anagrams
- MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd