Complete Definition of "god-forsaken"

English

Adjective
god-forsaken (or capitalized as God-forsaken)

  1. (religious colloquialism) to be so desperate and pained as to have been forgotten by a deity, or god.

#* I won't walk through that god-forsaken Army hospital again.

  1. a parcel of land which will not support crop growth, and seems to have been deserted by a deity, or god.

#* No matter how much fertilizer we use on this god-forsaken acre of dirt, nothing grows.

  1. pejorative term for a non-believer in a god or deity; an atheist

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Translations
trans-top|To be so desperate and pained as to have been forgotten by a deity, or god
Finnish: Jumalan hylkäämä
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trans-top|A parcel of land which will not support crop growth
Finnish: Jumalan hylkäämä
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Related terms
forsake
god-damned
god-forbid
godless
godmother
godfather
godhood
godchild
goddess
Godspeed

Revision and Credits for"god-forsaken"
  • 2007-05-20 18:44 - AutoFormat - -{{top}} +{{trans-top|To be so desperate and pained as to have been forgotten by a deity, or god}}, -{{top}} +{{trans-top|A parcel of land which will not support crop growth}}

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