Meanings
god-awful1
comparative more god-awful · superlative most god-awful · alternative God-awful · alternative god awful · alternative godawful · alternative goshawful · alternative gawdawful
- USderogatoryslangExtremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.
2 more examples
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 86It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair
1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie
God-awful2
comparative more God-awful · superlative most God-awful
- alternativeAlternative form of god-awful.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(informal) very unpleasant
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