damnable
adj/ˈdæmnəbl̩/
Etymology From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn + -able.
1
Capable of being damned.
2
Deserving of damnation; very bad.
- That damnable fridge has stopped working again.
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- damnableness, damnably