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.
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A creature unprepared unmeet for death,
And to transport him in the mind he is,
Were damnable. --Shak.
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2. Odious; pernicious; detestable.
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Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
damnable
adj : deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: execrable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "damnable":
abhorrent, abominable, absolute, accursed, arrant, atrocious,
awful, bad, base, black, blamable, blamed, blameworthy, blasted,
blessed, complete, criminal, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, dark,
darn, demoniac, demonic, despicable, detestable, devilish,
diabolic, disgraceful, downright, dreadful, evil, execrable,
fiendish, flagitious, flagrant, foul, ghoulish, goddamn, goddamned,
gross, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid,
improper, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, knavish, loathsome, low,
malevolent, malicious, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, odious,
offensive, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, peccant, pernicious,
rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, satanic, scandalous,
shameful, sinful, terrible, unforgivable, ungodly, unmitigated,
unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous,
wicked, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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