Godforsaken

Definition: Godforsaken

Godforsaken

Adjective

1. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places".

2. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "godforsaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms: Godforsaken

Crosswords: Godforsaken

Well that is because you are not the one who is supposed to spend the next 4 years of his life in this Godforsaken hole in the wall, pigsty with a bunch of dirty, psychotic rednecks (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town (I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That); performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Godforsaken (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Godforsaken Hole (reference)

• Godforsaken Sea Racing the Worlds Most D (reference)

• Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters (reference)

• Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on Holocaust, Racism, and Death (reference)

• The Godforsaken (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• That Godforsaken Road (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound), i braktisur (cast off, castaway, derelict, desolate, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, love-lorn, neglected, odd, stand empty, untrodden, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضائع (gone, lost, missing, up the spout, wasted), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

затънтен (inmost, innermost, obscure, out of the way, outlandish, outlying), покварен (corrupt, depraved, gamy, graceless, obscene, peccant, scrofulous, vicious, wanton). (various references)

Czech

zapadlý (bogged down, cavernous, hollow, remote, sunken), pustý (bleak, desert, desolate, dreary, hollow, stark, void, waste, wild), odříznutý od svìta, bohem zapomenutý. (various references)

French

paumé, misérable. (various references)

German

gottverlassen (benighted). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomorult (abject, bally, blankety-blank, bum, damned, jay, miserable, pimping, slave, wretch, wretched), istenverte (bally, blankety-blank, bloody, damned, darn, dashed, doggone, durn, frigging, god forsaken, goddam, goddamn), isten háta mögötti (boonies, devious, god forsaken, god-forgotten, hick, jerkwater, off the map, outback, outlandish). (various references)

Pig Latin

odforsakengay.(various references)

Portuguese

miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), abandonado (abandoned, abandonee, alone, bereaved, bereft, comfortless, derelict, forlorn, forsaken, helpless, lonely, lorn, love-lorn, outcast, sole, stranded, unattended, unattending, uncared-for, unrelieved, unused, waste). (various references)

Romanian

pãrãsit (abandoned, depopulated, derelict, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, neglected, rusty), mizerabil (abject, despicable, dirty, grovelling, miserable, miserably, pitiable, unlucky, villainous, wretch, wretched), lamentabil (lamentable, lamentably, lamenting, rotten, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Russian 

заброшенный (abandoned, deserted, desolate, neglected, uncared for). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabačen (isolated, out of the way, outlying, remote, removed), pokvaren k'o mućak, od koga je i bog dig'o ruke, bogu iza leđa. (various references)

Spanish

dejado de la mano de dios. (various references)

Swedish

gudsförgäten. (various references)

Turkish

kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, confounded, cursed, damn it, damn you, damned, flaming, goddamn, goddamned, heck, ruddy, sod it), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, cursed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, doggone, flaming, what a bind). (various references)

Ukrainian

занедбаний (desolate, forsaken, neglected, shabby, uncared for, uncouth), забутий богом. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: goosander.

-3 letters: dragoons, forsaken, frondose, gadroons, oreganos.

-4 letters: dangers, darkens, defangs, dogears, dragons, dragoon, drongos, fedoras, foraged, forages, fordoes, fordone, forgoes, forgone, forsake, franked, gadroon, ganders, gardens, groaned, noodges, onagers, oranges, oregano, orgones, roadeos, seafood, snooked, snooker.

-5 letters: adores, adorns, agones, angers, anodes, argons, arkose, arseno, dagoes, danger, danker, darken, defang, defogs, denars, dogear.