damnably
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8.1
- adverb
- /ˈdæmnəbli/
- NSFW
:
malditamente
- It's all just so damnably unfair!
- damnably difficult
- damnably hard
- so damnably
Examples
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"If so, it's a damnably clever one," Ben Jakob said.
Fiction book (1991) -
To place all of it on Joe Junior was damnably wrong, and Paul was still convinced that he'd been right to help his cousin escape.
Fiction book (1993) -
But we also did a damnably good job!
Fiction book (1993) -
That is enough to put you in a damnably bad mood by mid-morning.
Fiction book (2002) -
What's so damnably important that you need to miss your rendezvous with history?
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And yet there was also something damnably brilliant in the way the president sought to attach his purpose to Springsteen's views.
Blog text (27) -
Jeff responds to her letters from Manhattan by asking, "What fun do you get out of being so damnably wise?"
Academic text (2000) -
She's so damnably secretive about her life, but she's beyond my reach at this point, so what can I do?
Fiction book (1999) -
Thus we live, my friend, caught between a forgotten Crusader past and a yearned-for biblical future, with nothing to hold onto but the present, this damnably difficult here and now.
Fiction book (1993) -
This project has been damnably difficult, causing endless delays and frustration.
Synonyms
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1.0
Shows how strong something is, for example very cold
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
300
5.6
Said to make something sound very strong
230
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
212
1.3
Used before adjectives or adverbs informally to mean very
126
3.5
In a very bad or shocking way
51
2.2
In a way that shows great unhappiness or pain
27
6.5
In a way that is very bad or not good enough
18
4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
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8.2
In a very painful or strong way
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4.9
So strong or bad that you cannot stand it
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7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
6
5.5
In a very bad or extreme way
6
8.2
In an extremely bad and obvious way that shocks people
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6.8
Makes people feel shocked or disgusted
4
7.4
In a way that causes very strong physical pain or deep worry
4
7.0
In a very bad way that shows poor quality or failure
4
6.2
To a very great degree
2
6.8
In a very sad and unhappy way
2
8.2
In a very annoying way that people cannot stand
2
8.8
In a very intense and unpleasant way
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7.0
In a very bad and unpleasant way
1
7.4
In a very bad or shocking way
1
7.9
In a very bad, shameful way that deserves strong criticism
1
8.8
In a way that is very bad or annoying
1
7.5
In a way that makes someone feel annoyed and impatient
1
6.6
In an extremely strong way to show surprise or emphasis
1
7.9
Too strong or bad for you to stand
1
9.9
Very extreme and surprising that people use to show strong feeling
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9.9
Shows that something is very strong or intense
In a very annoying and unpleasant way
In a way that is very bad or annoying
In a way that shows great fear or warns of danger
To try very hard to do something
To try very hard to do something
People use it informally to mean very before adjectives
Antonyms
How Badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Damnably comes from the strong word damn, from an old Latin word meaning 'to condemn', with the endings -able and -ly to make it an adverb. So saying something is damnably difficult means it is very bad or annoyingly bad, as if it 'deserves condemnation', which is why we use it to mean 'very' in a negative way.