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Definition of
godawful adjective
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
godawful
adjective
(
also
god-awful
)
adjective
NAmE
/
/
ˈɡɑdˌɔfl
/
/
[
usually before noun
]
(
informal
)
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extremely bad
He made a god-awful mess of it!
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