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damnable

adj
/ˈdæmnəbl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn + -able.

  1. derived from damnābilis
  2. derived from dampnable
  3. inherited from dampnable

Definitions

  1. Capable of being damned.

  2. Deserving of damnation

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at damnable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01damnable02damned03exasperation04aggravation05evils06cursed

A definitional loop anchored at damnable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at damnable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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