'Damning' definitions:
Definition of 'damning'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Threatening with damnation [syn: damnatory, damning]
Definition of 'Damning'
From: GCIDE
- Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (d[a^]md or d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
- 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. [1913 Webster]
- He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. [1913 Webster]
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Damning'
From: GCIDE
- Damning \Damn"ing\, a. That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'damning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- based on,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- conclusive,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- documentary,
- documented,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- final,
- firsthand,
- founded on,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- implicit,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- material,
- nuncupative,
- overwhelming,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- reliable,
- significant,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- symptomatic,
- telling,
- valid,
- weighty