"damnable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdæmnəbl̩/ Forms: more damnable [comparative], most damnable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English dampnable, from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damn + -able. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dampnable}} Middle English dampnable, {{der|en|fro|dampnable}} Old French dampnable, {{der|en|la|damnābilis}} Latin damnābilis, {{surf|en|damn|-able}} By surface analysis, damn + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} damnable (comparative more damnable, superlative most damnable)
  1. Capable of being damned. Translations (capable of being damned): проклет (proklet) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-damnable-en-adj-jU-TfHGy Disambiguation of 'capable of being damned': 98 2
  2. Deserving of damnation; very bad. Translations (deserving of damnation): осъдителен (osǎditelen) (Bulgarian), საშინელი (sašineli) (Georgian), verdammenswert (German), verdammungswürdig (German), dampnable (Middle English), fördömlig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-damnable-en-adj-D55Lpf8y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 38 62 Disambiguation of 'deserving of damnation': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: damnableness

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