godforsaken

adjective

god·​for·​sak·​en ˈgäd-fər-ˌsā-kən 

1

: remote, desolate

2

: neglected and miserable in appearance or circumstances

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

Recent Examples on the Web

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1778, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

godforsaken

adjective

god·​for·​sak·​en -fər-ˌsā-kən 

: remote entry 1 sense 1, desolate

the most godforsaken place in the world