godforsaken
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Synonyms & Antonyms for godforsaken
Synonyms
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
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But even simple mercies prove elusive in these godforsaken parts. — Justin Chang, latimes.com, "Robert Pattinson delights in the sly, archly comic western 'Damsel'," 21 June 2018 The time is the late 18th century, and the place is some godforsaken colonial backwater in South America, where the scowling magistrate of the title, an officer of the Spanish crown, awaits a transfer that may never come. — WSJ, "‘Zama’ Review: Trapped in the Tropics," 26 Apr. 2018 Just please, for the love all that is good and righteous on this godforsaken planet, do not eat your burger patty with a fork and knife. — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, "What's the Correct Way to Eat a Hamburger on a Hot Dog Bun?," 4 Aug. 2017 On Monday, USA Today reported that more than 1,000 Secret Service agents have already hit the salary and overtime caps that were supposed to last them for the rest of this godforsaken year. — Clio Chang, New Republic, "The Secret Service is running out of money because Donald Trump and his massive brood take so many trips.," 18 Aug. 2017 Just please, for the love all that is good and righteous on this godforsaken planet, do not eat your burger patty with a fork and knife. — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, "What's the Correct Way to Eat a Hamburger on a Hot Dog Bun?," 4 Aug. 2017 The setting is some godforsaken part of rural England in the mid-19th century. — Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek, "Cannes' Favorite 'Lady Macbeth' Isn't Daring, but It Might Be Racist," 17 July 2017 Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Warren Buffett, Jared Kushner for some godforsaken reason—who come together once a year to remind people that Idaho is still a state in the union. — Clay Skipper, GQ, "Jeff Bezos' Big Ass Biceps Will Shame You Into Working Out This Weekend," 15 July 2017 For a while, this formula works as Sergeant Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) hunkers behind a crumbling wall in a godforsaken swath of Iraq, pinned down by an unseen enemy sniper. — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, "Review: In ‘The Wall,’ Two Trapped Soldiers and a Chatty Sniper," 11 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'godforsaken.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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