DAMN
Dictionary entry overview: What does damn mean?
• DAMN (noun)
The noun DAMN has 1 sense:
1. something of little value
Familiarity information: DAMN used as a noun is very rare.
• DAMN (adjective)
The adjective DAMN has 2 senses:
1. used as expletives
2. expletives used informally as intensifiers
Familiarity information: DAMN used as an adjective is rare.
• DAMN (verb)
The verb DAMN has 1 sense:
1. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
Familiarity information: DAMN used as a verb is very rare.
• DAMN (adverb)
The adverb DAMN has 1 sense:
1. extremely
Familiarity information: DAMN used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DAMN (noun)
Meaning:
Something of little value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
damn; tinker's damn; tinker's dam; shucks; red cent; darn; hoot; shit
Context examples:
his promise is not worth a damn / not worth one red cent / not worth shucks
Hypernyms ("damn" is a kind of...):
ineptitude; worthlessness (having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful)
• DAMN (adjective)
Meaning:
Used as expletives
Synonyms:
damn; goddamn
Context example:
oh, damn (or goddamn)!
Similar:
cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Meaning:
Expletives used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms:
goddamned; goddam; deuced; darned; damned; blasted; blamed; blame; damn; goddamn; infernal; blessed
Context examples:
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 / an infernal nuisance
Similar:
cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)
• DAMN (verb)
Meaning:
Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
maledict; imprecate; damn; beshrew; bedamn; anathemize; anathemise; curse
Context example:
The bad witch cursed the child
Hypernyms (to "damn" is one way to...):
arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
• DAMN (adverb)
Meaning:
Extremely
Synonyms:
all-fired; bloody; damn
Context examples:
you are bloody right / Why are you so all-fired aggressive?
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
