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godforsaken

UK/ˌɡɒd.fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ.kɪn/US/ˌɡɒd.fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ.kɪn/
adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,936 of 15,258mostly spoken

Godforsaken means bleak, dreary and remote. A godforsaken place, this godforsaken town, godforsaken weather.

It is always about a place and always an insult, and the exaggeration is the point — it says heaven itself gave up on the spot. It is written as one word without a capital, since it is a plain adjective now rather than a statement about God.

Definitions of godforsaken

  1. 1adjectivegodforsakenBleak, dreary and remote.C1

    “Why did they build a train station in this godforsaken place, miles from anywhere?”

godforsaken is a quality of place.

Where it comes from

God plus forsaken, from Old English forsacan, to renounce or give up.

From god + forsaken.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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