"god-awful" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-god-awful.ogg Forms: more god-awful [comparative], most god-awful [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} god-awful (comparative more god-awful, superlative most god-awful)
  1. (US, slang) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful. Tags: US, slang Synonyms: God-awful, god awful, godawful, goshawful, gawdawful
    Sense id: en-god-awful-en-adj-TrFQ3JyC Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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