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adjective

Definition of dangnext
as in freaking
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure we need to go shovel the dang snow again

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dang

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adverb

as in damn
to a great degree we've driven too dang far to turn around now

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dang

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verb

as in to darn

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Recent Examples of dang
Adjective
All your dang eggs in one basket. — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Quebec teams were no dang good. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026 Just give us the dang horses next year. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026 And, of course, there’s all those dang reptiles Texas is known for. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2026 Raye is topping global charts and looking dang good while doing it. — Elise Tabin, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026 The triplex, which has five terraces, eight balconies, and six wood-burning fireplaces, seems like a much better investment than that dang ferry. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2025 Fans have been asking for these cars for years; Ferrari’s already won the dang thing three times since the 499P first hit the track. — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 10 June 2026 Chip shows the video to Alex, who, not knowing what else to do and feeling pretty dang guilty about not signing the travel docs to cover for her, hands the video over to UBN legal, Celine, and Ben. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dang
  1. freaking
  2. damn
  3. darn
  4. cursed
  5. damned
  6. extremely
  7. terribly
  8. very
Adjective
  • There’s gonna be some comedy at the beginning and then there’s gonna be freaking reggaeton!
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That itself should be a freaking movie.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Definition of freaking
Adverb
  • Hodad’s is a third-generation small business, a San Diego treasure that makes a damn good burger.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Williams is too young to be this damn good.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of damn
Verb
  • Others proclaim that we should be darned happy that AI seems to work.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Eaton delivered a great quarter; Tuesday’s price action in the stock be darned.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 May 2026
Definition of darn
Adjective
  • The two answer a royal summons to investigate a cursed palace whose secrets even the King cannot speak of openly.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For years, a static skeletal figure sat atop a cursed pile of gold, but now, his story is coming to life thanks to the latest in Audio-Animatronic technology.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Definition of cursed
Adverb
  • Listening to Gish, recently reissued on vinyl for its 35th anniversary, is a good reminder that the Smashing Pumpkins started out a damned fine rock band.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 2 June 2026
  • But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of damned
Adverb
  • The team turned to the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, a stadium-sized synchrotron facility that produces extremely bright X-ray beams.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
  • Teasing out the impact of a small dose of radiation that occurs in addition to all those other exposures is extremely challenging, and the impact of extremely low exposures has not been decisively demonstrated.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026
Definition of extremely
Adverb
  • But everyone on the Spurs shot terribly from deep in the clutch.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of terribly
Adverb
  • Despite consuming mass quantities of high-calorie foods during competition season, most professional competitive eaters are very lean.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Music icon Taylor Swift and football star Travis Kelce, who announced their engagement in August 2025, are anticipated to tie the knot very soon.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
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