damn
English
Etymology
From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Pronunciation
Verb
damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)
- (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
- The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
- Only God can damn.
- I damn you eternally, fiend!
- To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
- To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
- I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
- 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.
- That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
- (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
Conjugation
Translations
theology: to condemn to hell
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to put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively
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to condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral, or illegal
to put a curse upon
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Adjective
damn (not comparable)
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:damned
Translations
generic intensifier
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Translations
awfully, 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
Translations
non-vulgar expression of contempt etc.
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Noun
damn (plural damns)
- The word "damn" employed as a curse.
- He said a few damns and left.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
- The new hires aren't worth a damn.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- I don't give a damn.
Translations
use of damn as a swear word
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a small, negligible quantity, being of little value
the smallest amount of concern or consideration
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Related terms
- a damn sight
- be damned
- Billy-be-damned
- damage
- damed if one does and damned if one doesn't
- dammit
- damnable
- damn all
- damn and blast
- damnation
- damn by association
- damned
- damned well
- damn if I care
- damn if I know
- damn it
- damn my eyes
- damn right
- damn skippy
- damn straight
- damn the torpedoes
- damn well
- damn with faint praise
- damn Yankee
- damn you
- damn your eyes
- damn your hide
- dang (euphemistic)
- darn (euphemistic)
- darn well
- dayum (slang, emphatic form)
- dizamn (slang, emphatic form)
- ever-damned
- fore-damned
- give a damn
- give a flying damn
- give a good damn
- give a tinker's damn
- goddammit
- god damn
- God damn, goddamn
- goddamned
- gods damn
- holy damn
- hot damn
- i’ll be damned
- near as damn it
- pursuer rigged and parish damned
- the damn
- tinker's damn
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