Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

damnably

/ˈdæmnəbli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: damnably
IPA: /ˈdæmnəbli/

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a damnable manner.

Example Sentences

"I haue miſ-vs'd the Kings Preſſe damnably."
"The people were in hopes he had killed the lawyers, and were damnably disappointed when they found he had only broke the leg o' the one, and the back of the other."
"But I am blabbing damnably; come, tell me one little bit of the story, and I shall tell you the rest."
"By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of benzine."
"The young man was so damnably full of his experiences, so eager to compare one thing with another, so insistent upon foreign places and changes in England and what we'd all got to do about it."
"And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably."

Etymology

From Middle English dampnablely; equivalent to damnable + -ly.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: dampnablely
Suffix: damnable

Inflected Forms

more damnably (comparative) most damnably (superlative)

Synonyms

damned cursedly

Questions

How do you pronounce damnably?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdæmnəbli/.
What does damnably mean?: In a damnable manner.
Where does damnably come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce damnably

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