very bad or unpleasant 该死的,讨厌的 leave this damnable place behind. 离开这个该死的地方。
subject to or worthy of divine condemnation 应受天谴的 suicide was thought damnable in the Middle Ages. 中世纪时自杀被认为是该受到天谴的。
派生 damnably adverb 语源
Middle English (in the sense ‘worthy of condem-nation’): from Old French dam(p)nable, from Latin dam(p)nabilis, from dam(p)nare 'inflict loss on' (see damn)