Godforsaken
adjective
Deserted, neglected and desolate.
They ended up in a godforsaken, abandoned old house.
Often appears as...
- godforsaken place
- godforsaken desert
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Disapproving
adjective
Very remote, especially from places with people.
My car broke down in the middle of this godforsaken wilderness.
Often appears as...
- godforsaken wilderness
- godforsaken desert
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Deserted, neglected and desolate.
They ended up in a godforsaken, abandoned old house.
Often appears as...
- godforsaken place
- godforsaken desert
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Very remote, especially from places with people.
My car broke down in the middle of this godforsaken wilderness.
Often appears as...
- godforsaken wilderness
- godforsaken desert
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
It often expresses disapproval or dislike towards a place.
I can't wait to leave this godforsaken town and start fresh.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Used to emphasize bad conditions, not always literally forsaken by God.
I was stuck waiting in some godforsaken line for hours.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Emphasis
Adds a strong sense of hopelessness or abandonment to nouns.
He lives all by himself in that godforsaken cabin.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
It often expresses disapproval or dislike towards a place.
I can't wait to leave this godforsaken town and start fresh.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Used to emphasize bad conditions, not always literally forsaken by God.
I was stuck waiting in some godforsaken line for hours.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Emphasis
Adds a strong sense of hopelessness or abandonment to nouns.
He lives all by himself in that godforsaken cabin.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
It often expresses disapproval or dislike towards a place.
I can't wait to leave this godforsaken town and start fresh.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Used to emphasize bad conditions, not always literally forsaken by God.
I was stuck waiting in some godforsaken line for hours.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Emphasis
Adds a strong sense of hopelessness or abandonment to nouns.
He lives all by himself in that godforsaken cabin.
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Crucial Waters PIPE...
to spend weeks and months sometimes waiting for the weather waiting for animals to show up and for things to just be right and the only difference is instead of being cramped up in some blind in a desert or jungle somewhere I'm usually on some cold wet stinky boat in some godforsaken part of the world
Video examples
Bill Strickland:...
after about ten pictures they all settled down and I ran a story and I said what do you think and on the back of the room a woman stood up and she said in 35 years and living in this godforsaken place you're the only person
Video examples
Crucial Waters PIPE...
to spend weeks and months sometimes waiting for the weather waiting for animals to show up and for things to just be right and the only difference is instead of being cramped up in some blind in a desert or jungle somewhere I'm usually on some cold wet stinky boat in some godforsaken part of the world
Video examples
Bill Strickland:...
after about ten pictures they all settled down and I ran a story and I said what do you think and on the back of the room a woman stood up and she said in 35 years and living in this godforsaken place you're the only person
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
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Apollonius of Tyana
Greek Philosopher
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
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Donald Ray Pollock
American Writer
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.
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Rick Atkinson
American Author
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
Quote examples
Apollonius of Tyana
Greek Philosopher
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
Quote examples
Donald Ray Pollock
American Writer
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.
Quote examples
Rick Atkinson
American Author
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
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