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say it: dam
damn is an adjective, noun, verb and adverb meaning "used as expletives". It is pronounced /ˈdæm/ — dam. It carries 5 recorded senses.
expletives used informally as intensifiers
“he's a blasted idiot”
“it's a blamed shame”
“a blame cold winter”
“not a blessed dime”
“I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing”
“he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool”
“a deuced idiot”
“an infernal nuisance”
something of little value
“his promise is not worth a damn”
“not worth one red cent”
“not worth shucks”
extremely
“you are bloody right”
“Why are you so all-fired aggressive?”
intensifier
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for damn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.