god-awful

Examples

• All

• There you go again, making that god-awful sound.

  The Shape of Water (2017)

• You have the most beautiful white birds that make the most God awful sounds.

• In other words, they would pay a God awful price to win the war.

  Lex Fridman

• See it for what it is a God awful disease.

• See it for what it is, a God awful disease.

• What is that god-awful smell?

  7 Deadly Sins (2019)

• Every god-awful night I come home to an empty house.

  Born Guilty (2017)

• It's real, it's fundamental, and a god-awful mess; but I love it.

  Blog text (29)

• So we have a bunch of God awful jokes and we have a bunch of props and stuff to help act them out.

• That's a god-awful idea.

  Only the Brave (2017)

Synonyms

T

terrible

vsgod-awful

∞ 1.0

Very bad or unpleasant and often serious

is more slangy and used to heighten negative feeling in speech

H

horrible

vsgod-awful

∞ 1.5

Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset

is more casual and used to intensify negative feeling

A

awful

vsgod-awful

∞ 1.0

Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike

is more informal and used to add stronger emotional emphasis

D

dreadful

vsgod-awful

136 3.7

Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock

is more casual and serves mainly as emphatic negative language

A

appalling

vsgod-awful

87 5.6

Causing shock and strong disgust because it is very bad

is closer but more informal and used for emphatic dislike

H

horrendous

vsgod-awful

82 7.0

Very shocking and scary, causing fear or disgust

is more informal and used mainly to stress negativity strongly

G

gross

vsgod-awful

• Formal

65 4.3

Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure

is more colloquial and aimed at stressing negative feeling rather than judgement

U

unspeakable

vsgod-awful

58 7.2

Too terrible to describe in words

is similarly extreme but more casual and used for emphasis

H

horrid

vsgod-awful

52 4.1

A very unpleasant thing that shocks or disgusts you

is more colloquial and used for strong negative emphasis

G

ghastly

vsgod-awful

49 6.8

Causing great fear and shock, often like death or ghosts

is similarly negative but more colloquial and used for strong emphasis

W

wicked

vsgod-awful

42 3.1

A very bad or painful condition, for example during illness

is more colloquial and used mainly for strong negative emphasis

H

hellish

vsgod-awful

28 6.1

Very unpleasant and painful, like being in hell

is comparably strong but more casual and emphatic in speech

A

abysmal

vsgod-awful

25 7.1

Very bad or of poor quality

is similar in degree but is more colloquial and emphatic

A

abominable

vsgod-awful

24 7.2

Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it

is more informal and focuses on strong negative emphasis only

S

sucky

vsgod-awful

• Informal

23 9.3

Very bad or disappointing to experience

is more intense and used to add emphatic negative feeling

A

atrocious

vsgod-awful

19 7.0

Being very bad and of low quality

is less formal but used to add strong negative feeling

B

beastly

vsgod-awful

• Informal

9 6.7

Very unpleasant to experience

is more forceful and used specifically to stress strong negativity

S

stinking

vsgod-awful

• Informal

7 5.3

Very bad or unpleasant

is similarly informal but signals even stronger negative emphasis

F

frightful

vsgod-awful

7 4.2

Very bad or unpleasant in a strong way

is more common in casual speech and used for strong dislike

G

godawful

vsgod-awful

• Informal

4 8.2

Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality

is the informal hyphenated form used for strong negative emphasis

H

hellacious

vsgod-awful

• Informal

3 9.0

Very bad or difficult and hard to deal with

is equally strong but more colloquial and used for emphasis

H

helly

vsgod-awful

• Slang

9.9

An extremely unpleasant situation that is hard to handle

is similar but used more broadly as an emphatic informal adjective

Antonyms

W

wonderful

∞ 1.0

Very good and likely to make you feel happy or amazed

E

excellent

∞ 1.0

Very good and better than most similar things

How Bad

god-awful

• Informal

16 8.4

atrocious

12 7.6

terrible

∞ 1.0

awful

∞ 1.0

bad

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology