godforsaken
adjective
god·for·sak·en
ˈgäd-fər-ˌsā-kən 
Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreary
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Examples of godforsaken in a Sentence
Who would want to visit such a godforsaken place?
grew up in the kind of godforsaken town in which everyone drank in order to forget that they were there
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The latter seems to be the major force ruling over a godforsaken corner of Ireland where, in one of the film’s gorier sequences, dozens upon dozens of sheep are illicitly slaughtered so their hind legs can be sold for cheap meat.
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
First, the company claims credit for turning central Florida from a godforsaken wasteland into a thriving economic engine for the entire state.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Both are talented musicians, although Christina gave up her career as a concert pianist to raise her two daughters (the second one, Louise, is played by India Hair), settling down in a godforsaken corner of Switzerland to teach music at home, and clearly regretting every minute of it.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
The plight of the hundred or more people whose homes are, at best, a tent on this godforsaken patch of South Dallas — less than a mile from bright and shiny downtown — is one of daily misery.
—Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
First, the company claims credit for turning central Florida from a godforsaken wasteland into a thriving economic engine for the entire state.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Both are talented musicians, although Christina gave up her career as a concert pianist to raise her two daughters (the second one, Louise, is played by India Hair), settling down in a godforsaken corner of Switzerland to teach music at home, and clearly regretting every minute of it.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
The plight of the hundred or more people whose homes are, at best, a tent on this godforsaken patch of South Dallas — less than a mile from bright and shiny downtown — is one of daily misery.
—Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
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“Godforsaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godforsaken. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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godforsaken
adjective
god·for·sak·en
-fər-ˌsā-kən
: remote entry 1 sense 1, desolate
the most godforsaken place in the world
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