god-awful
god-awful adjective: extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
Adjective (1)
god-awful (comparative more god-awful, superlative most god-awful)
- Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
- Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.
- 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 86
Adjective (2) capitalized: God-awful
God-awful (comparative more God-awful, superlative most God-awful)
- Alternative form of god-awful.
Forms of god-awful
| comparative | more god-awful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most god-awful |
| alternative form | God-awful |
| alternative form | god awful |
| alternative form | godawful |
| alternative form | goshawful |
| alternative form | gawdawful |
| comparative | more God-awful |
| superlative | most God-awful |
Questions about god-awful
- What does god-awful mean?
- God-awful means extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
- What part of speech is god-awful?
- God-awful is an adjective.
Words near god-awful in the dictionary
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