GOD-AWFUL Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

god-awful

adjective

Definition of god-awful

as in awful

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Recent Examples of god-awful The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 26 June 2026 Every time the United States hosts a major international soccer tournament, the world’s finest players unite to complain about our god-awful fields. — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026 His meme humor and utter dedication to that god-awful nickname should be annoying. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025

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Adjective

But that team’s awful 2026 season meant any shock switch was a non-starter.

— Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Kavulich believes that at some point, the situation is going to turn so awful that either Cuban leaders will be forced to change, or the United States will intervene.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of awful

Adjective

As horrible news stories go, few could compare with what happened on a Greek holiday island Monday.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad reelection campaign just got worse after Wednesday night’s debate in Sherman Oaks.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of horrible

Adjective

Cantu’s wife, who heard her husband, then exits the home and comes to the horrid realization that her husband is dead or dying on the front yard.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Of course, this horrid wave of diarrhea-inflicting illness wasn’t dumped from the sky by a crown-sporting octogenarian president zooming around in a fighter jet.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of horrid

Adjective

The seventh-round rookie threw an ugly interception in the first quarter, while backpedaling and off his back foot.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2026
Several leading Democrats, including Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, issued statements denouncing Piker’s ugly warning to the Jews as a barely veiled anti-Semitic threat.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ugly

Adjective

No sooner had the Chiefs’ abominable 2025 season (6-11) come to an end, team president Mark Donovan said last month, than the organization pivoted to 2026.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
That led to cycles of reform and renovation, as well as backlash, chiefly from cultural conservatives, who saw the adoption of western European habits and attitudes as abominable and even heretical.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of abominable

Adjective

The baby didn’t make it, and neither did the wife, who died a year later, a victim of the horrendous pandemic that swept the planet clean.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Barkley is the undeniable RB1 in the City of Brotherly Shove, but his horrendous advanced metrics profile paints a grim picture.

— Brad Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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