| damn | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn | something of little value.; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" |
| ~ worthlessness, ineptitude | having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful.; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" |
| v. (communication) | 2. anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict | wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.; "The bad witch cursed the child" |
| ~ bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, arouse, put forward, evoke, stir, raise | summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" |
| adj. | 3. damn, goddamn | used as expletives.; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" |
| ~ cursed, curst | deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier.; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning" |
| adj. | 4. blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal | 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"; "an infernal nuisance" |
| ~ cursed, curst | deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier.; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning" |
| adv. | 5. all-fired, bloody, damn | extremely.; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
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