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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAM'NABLE, a.
1. That may be damned or condemned; deserving damnation; worthy of eternal punishment. More generally, that which subjects or renders liable to damnation.
As damnable heresies. 2 Peter 2.
2. In a low or ludicrous sense, odious, detestable, or pernicious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: damnable, execrable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. liable to or deserving condemnation 2. very bad ; detestable <damnable weather> • damnableness noun • damnably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. hateful, annoying. Derivatives: damnably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF damnable (as DAMN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Damnable Dam"na*ble, a. [L. damnabilis, fr. damnare: cf. F. damnable. See Damn.] 1. Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. A creature unprepared unmeet for death, And to transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable. --Shak. 2. Odious; pernicious; detestable. Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal. (OLD-FASHIONED, RUDE) What a damnable climate we have! ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] • damnably It was damnably unfair that he should suffer so much. ADV: ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Odious, detestable, execrable, hateful, abominable, outrageous, atrocious, cursed, accursed.

Moby Thesaurus

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