Damn

Definition: Damn

Damn

Adjective

1. Used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!".

2. Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance".

Adverb

1. (intensifier) "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?".

Noun

1. Something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks".

Verb

1. Wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the child".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "damn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Satire

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DAMN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Damn

Condemnation

Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.

Disapprobation

Animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; "hint a fault and hesitate dislike"; not to be able to say much for.

Malediction

Verb: curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.

Interjection: woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt! honi soit! parbleu!

Curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.

Crosswords: Damn

Damn shame what they did to the dog. (Coming to America; writing credit: Barry W. Blaustein, David Sheffield)

The public doesn't give a damn about integrity (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

Damn, you're good (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

If that damn dog craps in the courtyard one more time, I'm just gonna bake his little butt for breakfast (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

In one damn night (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

I won't tell you a damn thing (When I'm Gone; performing artist: 3 DOORS DOWN)

She was the best damn woman I had ever seen (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

And how do we spend our lives knowin' nobody gives us a damn (Games People Play; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project)

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

It's a damn cold night (I'm With You; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Sleeping on the job: Damn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem. (references; author: unknown)

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1968)

Damn Yankees! (1967)

The Best Damn Sports Show Period (2001)

Damn Whitey (1997)

Give a Damn Again (1995)

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover (performing artist: Sophie B. Hawkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 (reference)

• Damn! Why Didn't I Write That? How Ordinary People are Raking in $100,000.00...or more Writing Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too! (reference)

• How to Write a Damn Good Novel (reference)

• The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Damn the Defiant! (reference)

• Damn Yankees (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Throw the House Out of the Windowe and Other Damn Fine Dance Tunes (reference)

• Damn the Torpedoes [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Damn Yankees: 1994 Original Broadway Cast Recording [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Go On, Give a Damn (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Damn! : a feminine expression of annoyance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Damn tricky, these imperialists!. Credit: Library of Congress.

You may fire when I am damn good and ready, Gridley!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Banks Ford and Scotts Damn [sic] on the Rappahannock. Credit: Library of Congress.

No war, no welfare, and no damn taxes!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself

Damn you and damn everything

Made a damn nuisance of hisself

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "damn": damn awkward ♦ damn cold ♦ damn dog ♦ damn him! ♦ damn it all! ♦ damn it! ♦ damn stupid ♦ damn with faint praise ♦ damn you! ♦ give a damn ♦ i don't give a damn ♦ it is not worth a damn ♦ not a tinker's damn ♦ not care a damn about anything ♦ not give a damn ♦ not give a damn about ♦ not to give a damn ♦ not worth a damn ♦ tinker's damn. Additional references.

Beginning with "damn": damn-all, damn-fool, damn-near, damn-the-consequences, damn-you, damn-your-eyes.

Ending with "damn": god-damn, I-don't-give-a-damn, who-gives-a-damn.

Containing "damn": near-as-damn-it.

Albanian

dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce), sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, dispraise, dressing down, embroilment, invective, lashing, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, vituperation, wigging), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), provoj fajësinë, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), ofshaj (groan, moan, suspire), mallkoj (anathematize, ban, call down, curse, darn, dash, execrate, imprecate, swear, vituperate), mallkim (anathema, ban, blight, curse, cuss, damnation, imprecation, perdition, swearing, tarnation, vituperation), gjykoj (adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, consider, daresay, denounce, impeach, judge, look in the matter, reason, referee, think about, try, umpire). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملعون (abominable, accursed, cursed, damned, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, stupid, wicked), ‏هلك (perish), ‏لعنة (anathema, ban, curse, cuss, execration, imprecation, malediction), ‏لعن (anathematize, ban, curse, execrate, imprecate, imprecation, revile), ‏حكم على (arbitrate, condemn, judge, sentence), ‏أدان (condemn, convict, debit, doom, find, rail), ‏شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, duffer, dust, fluff, frivolity, froth, gewgaw, hog, joke, piffling, small beer, tripe, triviality). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасно (almighty, awfully, cruelly, damnably, damned, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, remarkably, roaring, shocking, terribly, terrifically, thundering, to death), ругатня (bad language, curse, cuss, epithet, expletive, strafe, swear), ругая (abuse, be down on, call names, curse, cuss, drub, get on to smb., inveigh, keelhaul, land on, rail, rate, revile, row, slang, slate, storm at, swear, swear at, vituperate, walk into, whip), кълна (curse, execrate, imprecate, swear at), осъждам (adjudge, be naughty, blame, condemn, convict, denounce, deplore, doom, rap, reprehend, sentence), не одобрявам (disapprove, discountenance, disesteem, disfavor, disfavour, negative, object, object to, turn away), анатемосвам (anathematize, ban, curse), псувам (ballyrag, curse, swear, swear at), проклятие (anathema, bane, curse, cuss, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, perdition), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked), проклинам (air blast, anathematize, curse, cuss, darn, execrate, imprecate), провалям (circumvent, countermine, defeat, kill, pip, shipwreck, vote down). (various references)

Chinese 

诅咒 (Anathema, Anathemas, Bane, Curse, Cursed, curses, Cursing), 哎呀 (Ah, My God), 咒罵 (curse). (various references)

Czech

zatratit, proklít. (various references)

Danish

fordømme. (various references)

Dutch

verdomme, verdomd (devilish, diabolical), godverdomme. (various references)

Esperanto

damni, damne. (various references)

Faeroese

banna (blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear). (various references)

Farsi 

فحش (Abusive, Darn, Swear, Swearword, Vilification), لعنت کردن , لعنت (Curse, Cuss), خیلی (Copious, Extra, Far, Jolly, Many, So, Ten, Very), بسیار (Abundant, All, Extra, Far, Galore, Lot, Manifold, Many, Much, Multifarious, Plenty, Precious, Somush, Sopping, Sorely, Very). (various references)

Finnish

tuomita kadotukseen. (various references)

French

damnons, damnez, damner, damnent, merde (damn it), maudit (damned), maudire, condamner, bénédiction, être foutu. (various references)

German

verurteilen (condemn, condemns, convict, disapprove, doom, send down, sentence, to condemn), verdammen (condemn, doom, sentence). (various references)

Greek 

καταρώμαι (curse, imprecate), καταδικάζω (condemn, convict, doom, reprobate, sentence), πεντάρα (nickel, sou), επικρίνω δριμύτατα (castigate), ανάθεμα (anathema, curse), διαβολοστέλνω (dash), δεκάρα (copper, dime, sou). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלל (curse, swear), לעזאזל! (darn), לדון לגיהנום, לגנות (censure, condemn, defame, denounce, disapprove, dispraise, impute, put to shame, score, thumbs down). (various references)

Hungarian

káromkodás (bad language, cursing, cuss, expletive, oath, profane words, profanities, profanity, swear, swear word, swearing, swear-word), átok (anathema, ban, curse, cuss, imprecation, imprecatory, malediction, malison). (various references)

Indonesian

mengutuk (condemn, curse), menghukum (castigate, condemn, punish, sentence). (various references)

Italian

dannare (be damned, drive mad, strive hard). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

畜生 (beast, brute). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちくしょう (beast, brute, keeping a mistress). (various references)

Korean 

저주 (Curse, curses, Cursing). (various references)

Manx

mollaght (curse, cuss, malediction), gwee mollaght er (imprecate), deyrey (condemn, condemnation, convict, conviction; more precious, damnation, doom). (various references)

Pig Latin

amnday.(various references)

Portuguese

danação (damnation), nada (anything, iota, naught, nil, nix, none, not an ace, nothing, nothingness, nought, null, ought, zero, zilch), maldição (curse, cuss, malediction, malison), condenar ao inferno, condenar (adjudge, attaint, condemn, convict, cuss, denounce, devote, doom, misdeem, reprobate, sentence), condenação (condemnation, conviction, damnation, denunciation, doom), coisa sem importância (bauble, knick-knack, nick-nack, non-essential, nothingness, trifle), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censure, chide, condemn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, gloss, impeach, inculpate, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, nibble, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red-pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate), amaldiçoar (curse, darn, sentence). (various references)

Romanian

ptiu (pah, phew, pooh, pshaw), osândi (blame, convict, doom, punish, sentence), fluiera (blow, catcall, goose, pipe, piss, sing, whistle, whiz), blestema (ban, beshrew, blaspheme, blast, blow, curse, cuss, darn, execrate, imprecate, swear), blestem (ban, blasphemy, calamity, cancer, curse, damnation, execration, hardship, imprecation, malediction, offence, perdition), afurisi (anathematize, curse, excommunicate), înjurãturã (abuse, curse, cuss, oath, vernacular), înjura (abuse, blaspheme, curse, cuss, rail, revile, swear). (various references)

Russian 

ругательство (curse, curse word, explative, four-letter word, swear word, swearing, swearword, swear-word), осуждать (condemn, convict, criminate, criticize, cry shame upon, decry, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, judge, preach down, prejudge, rebuke), проклятие (anathema, condemnation, curse, cuss, damnation, imprecation, malediction, malison, perdition, tarnation), проклинать ругательство, провалить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dovraga, prokleti (anathematize, curse, execrate), proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate), osuditi (censure, condemn, convict, decry, denounce, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, inveigh, slate). (various references)

Spanish

maldición (ban, curse, dammit, damnation, damnification, damning, malediction, malison). (various references)

Swedish

döma (adjudge, adjudicate, condemn, decide, deem, doom, find, judge, pass, send down, sentence, try, umpire), jäkla (bally, blasted, blooming, cursed, cussed, deuced, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy), fördöma (blame, condemn, curse, decry, denounce), förbaskat (drat), förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damnable, damned, darned, deuced, devilish, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy), förbanna (curse, execrate, imprecate). (various references)

Turkish

değersiz şey (cheeseparing, falderal, gold brick, junk, lemon, rag, shoddy, slush, small beer, stiver, trifle, trumpery), lanet (bleeding, curse, cuss, damnation, execration, imprecation, imprecatory, malediction, malison, murrain, peevish, reprobation, swearword), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, cursed, damned, darned, deuced, doggone, flaming, godforsaken, what a bind), beddua (curse, imprecation, malediction), belâ okumak (darn, execrate), eleştirmek (animadvert, attack, carp, censure, chastise, clobber, comment, criticize, examine, expostulate, notice, pan, put down, review, riddle), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), kahretsin (blow it, confound him, damn it, sod it, what the dickens), çok fazla (devilish, excessively, exorbitant, far too much, immoderate, like blazes, mightily, oodles of, over, overmuch, plethoric, superabundant, too many, too much), lânet, suçu yüklemek (cast the blame, incriminate, put the blame on smb.), lanet etmek (blast, consign to perdition, curse, dash, execrate), lanet olası (blasted, blinking, blithering, bloody, blooming, cursed, damn it, damnable, damned, darned, imprecatory, ruddy), lanet olsun (blast it, blow it, confound it, curse him, damn it, damnation, skittles), lanetlemek (anathematize, curse, darn, reprobate), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), kesinlikle kabul etmemek. (various references)

Turkmen 

nдletlemek (curse). (various references)

Ukrainian

грубити, осуджувати (animadvert, criticize, denounce, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, impeach, judge, reprehend, reprobate, reprove), лаятися (curse), лайка (abuse, altercation, barge, chevrette, curse, dog-skin, hassle, kid-skin, oath, ordure, scold, swear word, vituperation), прокляття (anathema, ban, bane, curse, cuss, damn it, damnation, darn, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, oath, perdition), проклинати (anathematize, ban, curse, darn, detest, execrate, imprecate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tí (smidgen), lời nguyền rủa (imprecation, malediction, swear-word), lời chửi rủa chút, chẳng đáng một trinh. (various references)

Welsh

damnio, cyfrgolli (lose utterly). (various references)

damno. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "damn": damnable, damnableness, damnablenesses, damnably, damnation, damnations, damnatory, damndest, damndests, damned, damneder, damnedest, damnedests, damner, damners, damnified, damnifies, damnify, damnifying, damning, damningly, damns. (additional references)

Words ending with "damn": bedamn, goddamn. (additional references)

Words containing "damn": bedamned, bedamning, bedamns, goddamned, goddamning, goddamns. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: and, dam, mad, man, nam.

-2 letters: ad, am, an, ma, na.

+1 letter: adman, admen, amend, daman, damns, dunam, maned, maund, menad, monad, named, nomad.

+2 letters: aidman, aidmen, almond, amends, amidin, anadem, badman, badmen, bedamn, daemon, daimen, daimon, damans, damned, damner, dampen, damson, demand, demean, desman, diamin, dolman, domain, dunams, dynamo, fandom, madden, madman, madmen, maenad, maiden, manned, mantid, maunds, maundy, median, medina, menads, moaned, monads, nomads, random, remand, rodman, tandem, unmade.