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单词 godforsaken
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godforsakenadj.

Brit. /ˈɡɒdfəˌseɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈˌɡɑdfərˈˌseɪkən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: god n., forsaken adj.
Etymology: < god n. + forsaken adj.
Originally: (chiefly of a person) abandoned by God; consigned to evil ways, depraved, profligate. Subsequently: (esp. of a place) lacking any merit or attraction; desolate, dismal, dreary.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing
darkOE
unmerryOE
deathlyc1225
dolefulc1275
elengec1275
dreicha1300
coolc1350
cloudyc1374
sada1375
colda1400
deadlya1400
joylessc1400
unjoyful?c1400
disconsolatea1413
mournfula1425
funeralc1425
uncheerfulc1449
dolent1489
dolesome1533
heavy-hearted1555
glum1558
ungladsome1558
black1562
pleasureless1567
dern1570
plaintive?1570
glummish1573
cheerless1575
comfortless1576
wintry1579
glummy1580
funebral1581
discouraging1584
dernful?1591
murk1596
recomfortless1596
sullen1597
amating1600
lugubrious1601
dusky1602
sable1603
funebrial1604
damping1607
mortifying1611
tearful?1611
uncouth1611
dulsome1613
luctual1613
dismal1617
winterous1617
unked1620
mopish1621
godforsaken?1623
uncheerly1627
funebrious1630
lugubrous1632
drearisome1633
unheartsome1637
feral1641
drear1645
darksome1649
sadding1649
saddening1650
disheartening1654
funebrous1654
luctiferous1656
mestifical1656
tristifical1656
sooty1657
dreary1667
tenebrose1677
clouded1682
tragicala1700
funereal1707
gloomy1710
sepulchrala1711
dumpishc1717
bleaka1719
depressive1727
lugubre1727
muzzy1728
dispiriting1733
uncheery1760
unconsolatory1760
unjolly1764
Decemberly1765
sombre1768
uncouthie1768
depressing1772
unmirthful1782
sombrous1789
disanimating1791
Decemberish1793
grey1794
uncheering1796
ungenial1796
uncomforting1798
disencouraginga1806
stern1812
chilling1815
uncheered1817
dejecting1818
mopey1821
desponding1828
wisht1829
leadening1835
unsportful1837
demoralizing1840
Novemberish1840
frigid1844
morne1844
tragic1848
wet-blanketty1848
morgue1850
ungladdeneda1851
adusk1856
smileless1858
soul-sick1858
Novemberya1864
saturnine1863
down1873
lacklustre1883
Heaven-abandoneda1907
downbeat1952
doomy1967
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [adjective]
unrighteouseOE
hinderfulc1200
undevouta1300
unreligiousa1382
unkindc1390
unpiteous?c1400
indevout?1504
ungodly1526
godless1528
profane1568
ungodded1579
impious1585
unhalloweda1616
godforsaken?1623
devoteless1650
atheistic1677
undivine1686
Heaven-abandoned1720
indevotea1742
unctionless1842
indevotional1865
link1889
?1623 O. Felltham Resolues lv. 178 The wicked, and Godforsaken man spreads out his plumes, and seemes euen to checke the Sunne in his glory.
1658 R. Farmer Imposter Dethron'd 19 He is a man of a most supernaturally, and God-forsaken-harden'd heart, and seared conscience.
1776 N. Cappe Serm. Protestant-Dissenters York 23 See you not in these things the marks of a God-forsaking and a God-forsaken people?
1778 J. Matlock Apostasy Pref. p. xiii In this miserable God-forsaken house or castle, they have their cohabitation, they dwell there altogether.
1817 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 295 Here seamen old, with grizzled locks, Shipwreck'd before on desert rocks, And by some wandering vessel taken From sorrows that seem'd God-forsaken.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 175 Knowing..what a crew of God-forsaken robbers they are.
1860 G. Du Maurier Lett. (1951) 25 Tom, nurse & foster thine aversion towards the Godforsaken city in which thy lines are cast now.
1886 T. Heney Fortunate Days 85 The God-forsakenest spot that ever mine eyes were set on.
1923 W. P. Ker Art of Poetry 60 You come with Milton..to the Paradise of Fools in a dry, parched, and god-forsaken land on the outside of the fixed stars.
1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With iv. 61 You wouldn't know any place in this God-forsaken spot?
1997 Gallop! Jan. 82/1 My heart went out to this godforsaken little creature who, in spite of the treatment she had received, still somehow had faith in the human race.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 May 29/4 You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards.

Derivatives

ˌGod-forˈsakenly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
litherOE
naughtlyOE
litherlya1225
simplya1325
miseaselyc1330
wretchedlyc1340
lewdlyc1386
unhappily1390
miserably?a1425
lodderlyc1425
sorrily1496
singly1548
naughtily1574
sillily1581
lamentably1585
evilly1587
woefully1592
scurvily1616
execrably1633
grievously1742
miscreantly1744
queasily1845
fecklessly1862
God-forsakenly1913
1913 D. H. Lawrence Let. 13 May (1932) 123 Some of the reviews have been so God-forsakenly stupid.
2005 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 22 There is a misconception that the Falklands are a bleak, sodden, chilled-down version of the Scilly Isles lingering godforsakenly somewhere off Antarctica.
ˌGod-forˈsakenness n.
ΚΠ
1875 ‘A. Leigh’ New Minnesinger 144 They, My little ones, must bear Like me, the God-forsakenness, Like me the vanquish'd prayer.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 12/1 Of course, it is not of the same date as Brive. But it has the God-forsakenness, the misère, the penetrating sadness, its essentially French charm.
2003 M. Ludlow in R. A. Parry & C. H. Partridge Universal Salvation x. 213 Christ entering a state of God-forsakenness on the cross on Good Friday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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