damn vs damned what difference
what is difference between damn and damned
English
Etymology
Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnare (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
- Homophone: dam
Verb
damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)
- (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
- To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
- To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
- November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
- (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
- (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
- c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
Conjugation
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Translations
Adjective
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:damned
Translations
Adverb
damn (not comparable)
- (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.
Translations
Interjection
damn
- (mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:dammit
Derived terms
- dang (euphemistic)
- darn (euphemistic)
- dayum (slang, emphatic form)
- dizamn (slang, emphatic form)
Translations
Noun
damn (plural damns)
- The use of “damn” as a curse.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
Translations
Anagrams
- MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam’d
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæmd/
- Homophone: dammed
Adjective
damned (comparative damneder or more damned, superlative damnedest or most damned)
- Godforsaken.
- Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something.
- Their damned lawyers can go to hell.
- I can’t get this damned thing to work.
- Used to express vehemently that one is not or does not do something, or refuses to be or do something.
Synonyms
- (god-forsaken): See Thesaurus:doomed
- (profanity): See Thesaurus:damned
Derived terms
- ever-damned
Translations
Adverb
damned (comparative more damned, superlative most damned)
- (mildly vulgar) Very.
- What’s so damned important about a football game?
Verb
damned
- simple past tense and past participle of damn
Anagrams
- Dedman, Madden, demand, madden, manded
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