GODFORSAKEN Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

godforsaken

adjective

ˈgäd-fər-ˌsā-kən

as in bleak

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer grew up in the kind of godforsaken town in which everyone drank in order to forget that they were there

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Recent Examples of godforsaken Deep down part of me hoped that this godforsaken place would burn to the ground — after all the prisoners had escaped, of course. —

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022 This game, this godforsaken 20-20 tie, was two bad teams racing to the bottom and getting there at the same time. —

Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022 It’s a mode of have-it-all eclecticism that is frequently redolent of the wishful artists’ statements that art schools require their students to write—a godforsaken prose genre that is, at best, wholesomely cynical. —

Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Erin and their two young children are none too happy about idling while awaiting repairs at a godforsaken motel in the middle of nowhere with an empty pool and the only place to eat a dismal Subway restaurant. —

Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022 See all Example Sentences for godforsaken

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Matt Harrison, president of Kuka Home North America, which has a furniture manufacturing base in Monterrey, fears the future could be bleak.

— David Culver, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
The negotiations have seemingly stalled and the market for him is bleak.

— Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025