damning

The word “damning” has 2 syllables: dam-ning

It's pronounced as /ˈdæmɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for damning?

In the thesaurus, “damning” has 97 synonyms and 47 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for damning along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for damning

  • abhorring
  • abominating
  • adjudging
  • admonishing
  • adverse
  • anathematizing
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • attacking
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blacklisting
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • calamitous
  • castigating
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • chastising
  • chiding
  • concluding
  • condemning
  • convicting
  • correcting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • damaging
  • damnatory
  • deciding
  • decreeing
  • decrying
  • deleterious
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • destructive
  • determining
  • detesting
  • detrimental
  • disastrous
  • disciplining
  • disparaging
  • dispraising
  • dissing
  • dooming
  • evil
  • excommunicating
  • execrating
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • faulting
  • finding
  • hapless
  • harmful
  • hating
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-fated
  • ill-starred
  • imprecating
  • incriminating
  • injurious
  • judging
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • loathing
  • luckless
  • maledicting
  • noxious
  • opining
  • ostracizing
  • panning
  • penalizing
  • pernicious
  • prejudicial
  • punishing
  • raking
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reproving
  • resolving
  • reviling
  • ruinous
  • ruling
  • scolding
  • sentencing
  • slamming
  • unfortunate
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating

Antonyms for damning

Meanings of damning

  • verb
    1. To condemn to hell.
    2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
    3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
    4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
    5. To curse; put a curse upon.
    6. To invoke damnation; to curse.
  • noun
    1. A condemnation.
    2. An act of swearing with the word "damn".
  • adjective
    1. Condemning.

Example Sentences

  • The detective presented the damning evidence that pointed directly to the suspect.
  • His silence in the courtroom spoke volumes, a damning indictment of guilt.
  • The leaked emails contained damning information about the company's unethical practices.
  • The witness's testimony was damning, unraveling the defendant's alibi.
  • The investigative report revealed a series of damning facts that shook the public's trust.

On this page you'll find 144 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to damning, such as: abhorring, abominating, acclaiming, adjudging, admonishing, adverse, anathematizing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abasing

  • abashing
  • affronting
  • bad-mouthing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • blemishing
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • crying down
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirtying
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discrediting
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • downgrading
  • embarrassing
  • execrating
  • fazing
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • fouling
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • insulting
  • lessening
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lowering
  • maligning
  • marring
  • minimizing
  • mortifying
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reprobating
  • ridiculing
  • ruining
  • shaming
  • sinking
  • slandering
  • smirching
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • vitiating
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wrecking
  • writing off

calamitous

  • adverse
  • afflictive
  • annihilatory
  • antibiotic
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • biocidal
  • blighting
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • damaging
  • damning
  • deadly
  • deathly
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • destructive
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devastative
  • dire
  • disastrous
  • evil
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fell
  • grievous
  • hapless
  • harmful
  • heartbreaking
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-fated
  • ill-starred
  • injurious
  • killer
  • lamentable
  • lethal
  • luckless
  • messy
  • mortal
  • murderous
  • noxious
  • pernicious
  • pestilent
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • regrettable
  • ruinous
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • virulent
  • vital
  • woeful

danging

debasing

  • X-rated
  • abasement
  • abashing
  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • adult
  • affronting
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • awkward
  • backbiting
  • bad name
  • bad odor
  • bad-mouthing
  • barbaric
  • baseness
  • bastardizing
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedroom
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • beneath one
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blemishing
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • brazen
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • coarse
  • comedown
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contempt
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • contumely
  • corrupt
  • corrupting
  • corruption
  • criminal
  • criticizing
  • crude
  • crying down
  • culpability
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasement
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degradation
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denigrating
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciating
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • descending
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • difficult
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirty
  • dirtying
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disbarment
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discredit
  • discrediting
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonor
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • disrepute
  • disrespect
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dust
  • earthy
  • egregious
  • embarrassing
  • erotic
  • erotical
  • execrating
  • false
  • fazing
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flagrant
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • foul
  • fouling
  • gross
  • hard-core
  • harming
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • humiliation
  • hurting
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • immodest
  • impairing
  • impossible
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • inexpedient
  • infamous
  • infamy
  • infra indignitatem
  • ingloriousness
  • inhuman
  • iniquitous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • intolerable
  • invective
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • kinky
  • lascivious
  • lessening
  • lewd
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • loss of honor
  • lowering
  • lustful
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • maligning
  • marring
  • mature
  • meanness
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notorious
  • obloquy
  • obscene
  • odious
  • odium
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • opprobrium
  • pejorative
  • perverted
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pollution
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • prostitution
  • prurient
  • put down
  • putting down
  • racy
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reviling
  • ribald
  • ridiculing
  • rude
  • ruining
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalous
  • scorn
  • scurrilous
  • sexy
  • shadow
  • shame
  • shameless
  • shaming
  • shocking
  • sinful
  • sinking
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slight
  • slighting
  • slur
  • smirch
  • smirching
  • smutty
  • soft-core
  • spiteful
  • spoiling
  • spot
  • stain
  • staining
  • stigma
  • subverting
  • suggestive
  • taint
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnish
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • traducing
  • troublesome
  • truculent
  • turpitude
  • unbearable
  • unbecoming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncomplimentary
  • ungodly
  • unpleasant
  • unprintable
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • untrue
  • unwieldy
  • unworthy of one
  • venality
  • vile
  • vilifying
  • villainous
  • violent
  • vitiating
  • vitriolic
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wrecking
  • writing off

impeaching

  • accusing
  • appealing
  • arraigning
  • blaming
  • booking
  • calling in question
  • calling into question
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • challenging
  • charging
  • chiding
  • citing
  • combating
  • combatting
  • condemning
  • contesting
  • criminating
  • criticizing
  • damning
  • defaming
  • denouncing
  • disputing
  • doubting
  • faulting
  • fighting
  • framing
  • implicating
  • impugning
  • incriminating
  • inculpating
  • indicting
  • mistrusting
  • naming
  • opposing
  • oppugning
  • prosecuting
  • protesting
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebuking
  • recriminating
  • reporting
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reproving
  • resisting
  • retaliating
  • suing
  • summoning
  • taxing
  • trying

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