Definitions for: Damn


[n] something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks"
[adv] (intensifier) "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"
[adj] 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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
[adj] used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"
[v] wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the child"



Webster (1913) Definition: Damn (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
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 censure.

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.

2. (Theol.) 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.
To invoke damnation; to curse. ``While I inwardly damn.''
--Goldsmith.

Synonyms: all-fired, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, bloody, curse, cursed, curst, damned, darn, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, hoot, imprecate, infernal, maledict, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn

Antonyms: bless

See Also: worthlessness

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