Usually means: Extremely bad, terrible, or unpleasant.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word god-awful:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. god-awful: Merriam-Webster
  2. God-awful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. God-awful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. god-awful, god-awful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. god-awful: Vocabulary.com
  6. God-Awful, God-awful, god-awful: Wordnik
  7. god-awful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. God-awful, god-awful: Wiktionary
  9. God-awful: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. god-awful: Dictionary.com
  11. god-awful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. god-awful: Rhymezone
  13. god-awful: FreeDictionary.org
  14. god-awful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. God-awful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. God-awful, God-awful: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. God-awful: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See god-awfuls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (US, slang) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
adjective:  Alternative spelling of god-awful [(US, slang) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.]

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