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    Damnable means very bad or very — damnable weather, a damnable mess. It sounds old, like something from a book or an old play; young people almost never say it. The older, heavier meaning is 'so bad it deserves hell', from the church use of damn. That meaning is still sitting under the everyday one, which is why the word feels stronger and more old-fashioned than . Though actually, when people use it now they often just mean 'wretched' or 'this awful thing', not a real curse from God.

    該死的、可惡的(偏書面、帶點誇張)

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組成From Middle English dampnable, from Old French, from Latin damnābilis. On the surface: damn + -able.

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  • damnthe root; damnable is 'worthy of damn' that later came to mean 'very bad'
  • damnationthe noun for being damned; same damn- family

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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damnableadj/ˈdæmnəbl̩/

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    Capable of being damned.

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    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.

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