damnation
Hell's final sentence
Damnation is condemnation to eternal punishment in hell, the fate religious traditions promise to the wicked: The preacher threatened damnation for unrepentant sinners.
As an exclamation, damnation expresses anger or frustration, though it sounds old-fashioned now: Damnation! I've lost my wallet again.
The word carries religious weight even in secular use.
Eternal spiritual ruin
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- brimstoneArchaic word for sulfur
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- eternal punishmentEndless suffering after death
lake of fire · Hades · underworld · torment · abyss · sulfur · fire and brimstone · eternal torment
Malevolent incantation
- maledictionVerbal invocation of harm
- anathemaIntensely detested thing
- imprecationSpoken wish for harm
- curseInvoked harm through words
execration · denunciation · ban · excommunication · interdiction · consignment · doom · bane
Exclamation of annoyance
drat · doggone · confound · curse · bloody · shoot · heck · expletive
Official court decision
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- guiltMoral self-reproach
accountability · justice · tribunal · penalty · decree · adjudication · reckoning · wrath
Predetermined course of events
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- lostUnable to navigate
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- irredeemableImpossible to reform
destruction · ruin · downfall · doomsday · apocalypse · annihilation · oblivion · despair
Moral corruption or evil
- iniquityMoral wrongdoing, grave injustice
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- evilProfound moral wickedness
corruption · immorality · vice · sinfulness · reprobate · mortal sin · sinner · fallen
perdition
Eternal spiritual ruin
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- brimstoneArchaic word for sulfur
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
eternal punishment · lake of fire · Hades · underworld · torment · abyss · sulfur · fire and brimstone · eternal torment · netherworld
hex
Malevolent incantation
- maledictionVerbal invocation of harm
- anathemaIntensely detested thing
- imprecationSpoken wish for harm
curse · execration · denunciation · ban · excommunication · interdiction · consignment · doom · bane · jinx
dammit
Exclamation of annoyance
dang · drat · doggone · confound · curse · bloody · shoot · heck · expletive · oath
verdict
Official court decision
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
guilt · accountability · justice · tribunal · penalty · decree · adjudication · reckoning · wrath · divine judgment
fate
Predetermined course of events
irredeemable · destruction · ruin · downfall · doomsday · apocalypse · annihilation · oblivion · despair · inescapable
wickedness
Moral corruption or evil
- iniquityMoral wrongdoing, grave injustice
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- depravityProfound moral corruption
evil · corruption · immorality · vice · sinfulness · reprobate · mortal sin · sinner · fallen · ungodly
- Biblical Afterlifeheaven, paradise, Hades, Gehenna, lake of fire
- religious penaltiesexcommunication, anathema, shunning, disfellowship, banishment
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, virtue and vice, morality
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
damnationsalvation
Deliverance from harm
redemption · heaven · paradise · eternal life · deliverance
damnationforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
absolution · pardon · divine mercy · grace · justification
damnationblessing
Prayer seeking divine favor
sanctification · deliverance · liberation · holiness · consecration
- eternal damnationEverlasting punishment after death