damnable

[ dam-nuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. worthy of condemnation.
2. detestable, abominable, or outrageous.

damnable

/ ˈdæmnəbəl /

adjective

1. execrable; detestable
2. liable to or deserving damnation

Derived Forms

• ˈdamnableness, noun

Other Words From

• damna·ble·ness damna·bili·ty noun
• damna·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of damnable¹

1275–1325; Middle English dam ( p ) nable < Middle French damnable < Late Latin damnābilis, equivalent to Latin damn ( āre ) ( damn ) + -ābilis -able

Example Sentences

By the way, this article is not only impious and damnable, it's also almost certainly illegal to read or publish it in Gaza.

From The Daily Beast

There won't be a day, inside or out of it, that I won't run up against every damnable meanness that human nature is capable of.

From Project Gutenberg

They told the Deputy that they were in a wretched and damnable state; and this was true, for they were very vicious young men.

From Project Gutenberg

Then would come the other damnable series again, and the sweat would stand on my brow.

From Project Gutenberg

I do not know what damnable difference in me that absence of the pair of them for a single evening made.

From Project Gutenberg

And Berg sat there, smiling, pouring out those damnable cynicisms.

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