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damnable adjective [ ˈdamnəb(ə)l ]

• very bad or unpleasant.
• "leave this damnable place behind"
Similar: unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable, offensive, execrable, horrible, horrid, ghastly, awful, nasty, dreadful, terrible, annoying, irritating, infuriating, maddening, exasperating, hateful, detestable, loathsome, foul, abominable, odious, obnoxious, beastly, pestilential, scurvy,
Opposite: pleasant,
• subject to or worthy of divine condemnation.
• "suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages"
Similar: accursed, cursed, under a curse, damned, diabolical, devilish, demonic, demoniac, fiendish, Mephistophelian, hellish, infernal, execrable, base, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, heinous, anathematized,
Opposite: holy,
Origin: Middle English (in damnable (sense 2)): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’ (see damn).


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