单词 | godforsaken |
释义 | godforsakenadj. 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). < adj.?1623 |
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