damnable

From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmnəbl̩/

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damnable (comparative more damnable, superlative most damnable)

1. Capable of being damned.
2. Deserving of damnation; very bad.

   That damnable fridge has stopped working again.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     Great God! They were moving! They were rushing swiftly and noiselessly downwards! Black, black as night, huge, ill-defined, semi-human and altogether evil and damnable.

Inherited from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damner +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /da.nabl/ ~ /dɑ.nabl/

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damnable (plural damnables)

1. damnable

• “damnable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.