god-awful

1. 1.

   (informal) very unpleasant

   “hellish weather”

   “stop that god-awful racket”

   Synonymsbeastlyhellish

   Similarunpleasant

   colloquialism

Questions about god-awful

What does god-awful mean?

god-awful means "(informal) very unpleasant".

How many syllables are in god-awful?

god-awful has 3 syllables: go-d-aw-ful. The stress falls on "go".

What is another word for god-awful?

Close synonyms include beastly, hellish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is god-awful a common word?

god-awful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.