Do you capitalize God awful?

Lowercase goddamn is dramatically more common. For the spaced variation, capitalization was more common than not, but for the hyphenated variation, they were equally divided between capitalizing and not. For goddamn, the unspaced variation is much more common than the variants with space and hyphen.
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Should God awful be capitalized?

Lowercase such words as “god-awful,” “goddamn,” “godlike,” “godliness,” “godsend,” etc.
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Do you capitalize God in a sentence?

"God" is only capitalized when being used as a name. The Muslim name Allah is a translation of the name God. When referring to Greek, Roman, and other groups of gods and goddesses, only the name is capitalized. When people form a group and give it a name, it should be capitalized.
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Is God spelled with a capital G?

UsageEdit. "God" normally has a capital letter at the start if there is only one God ("God" has a capital letter because it is used like a person's name). When talking about several gods, a small (lowercase) letter starts the word. Ancient Greeks believed in many gods, but Jews believe that there is only one God.
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Is God a proper noun?

God is capitalized when it functions as a name. In this use, God is a proper noun like any other name and does not take a definite or indefinite article.
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Why do we capitalize he when referring to God?

In the 19th century, it became common to capitalize pronouns referring to the God of the Abrahamic religions, in order to show respect: For in Him doth our heart rejoice, For in His holy name we have trusted.
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Do you capitalize God in fiction?

The only rigid rule for capitalizing “God” in dialogue and thoughts is that you do so when using it as a pronoun: “Joe, God won't like that.” Beyond that, you can let your character decide. Some characters say “Oh my god!” as a generic expression with no thought to religion at all. For them, lowercase works.
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How do you punctuate Oh my God?

Again, I would be inclined to say that "Oh God" as an exclamation at the start of a sentence is a phrase in its own right and doesn't need a comma.
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Is it gods or God's?

Since God here is essentially a name, the first letter should be capitalized. The sake belongs to God, so God should be in the possessive form: God's. And because we're talking about just one god, there is only one sake.
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Is it godawful or God-awful?

god-awful (adj.) also godawful, according to OED from 1878 as "impressive," 1897 as "impressively terrible," but it seems not to have been much in print before c. 1924, from God + awful.
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What is the meaning of God-awful?

Definition of god-awful

: extremely unpleasant or disagreeable : abominable god-awful weather.
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Do you capitalize he when referring to God AP style?

Lowercase personal pronouns, “he,” “him,” “thee,” “thou.” Lowercase gods and goddesses in references to the deities of polytheistic religions. Lowercase god, gods, and goddesses in references to false gods.
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What is plural form of God?

god /ˈgɑːd/ noun. plural gods.
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Is it God sake or God sakes?

Given this, God's sake, god sake, and god sakes all are correct. The odd man out (gods sake) is wrong because God is not capitalized and the apostrophe is skipped.
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What is feminine word of God?

The first part of God's name in Hebrew, “Yah,” is feminine, and the last part, “weh,” is masculine.
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Do I need comma after Oh?

Because “oh,” like any other interjection, is not essential to the meaning of a sentence, it needs to be set off everything else. That's accomplished with one or more commas. “Oh” almost always appears at the beginning of a sentence, so to set it off from everything else you need to place a comma after it.
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Is there a comma after Oh?

"Oh" and "ah." A comma follows an exclamatory oh or ah only if a slight pause is intended. No comma follows vocative oh or (mainly poetic and largely archaic) O. Ah, here's your fruitcake at last. Oh no!
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Can we use exclamation mark after Oh?

Exclamation marks, also known as exclamation points, were originally called the "note of admiration." They are used to exclaim something. They are commonly used after interjections (words or phrases that are used to exclaim, command or protest like “wow” or “oh”).
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Is God Capitalised in Oh My God?

One of the most common questions people ask about religious words is whether to capitalize the word “god.” The name or title of any specific deity is capitalized just like any other name, so when “God” is used to refer to “the one God” (in other words, in any monotheistic religion), it is capitalized.
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What does God mean in slang?

Slang / Jargon (49) Acronym. Definition. GOD. Good Old Days.
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What does YHWH mean?

Definitions of YHWH. a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH. synonyms: JHVH, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, Wahvey, YHVH, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe, Yahweh. example of: God, Supreme Being.
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What are the 7 names of God?

Seven names of God
  • YHWH.
  • Adonai.
  • El.
  • Elohim.
  • Shaddai.
  • Tzevaot.
  • Ehyeh.
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Do you capitalize God parents?

Godmother and godfather are much older—both are first recorded before 1000. Even though the word God is usually capitalized in the context of Christianity, it's spelled lowercase in some general terms, such as godliness.
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Is abominable an adjective?

ABOMINABLE (adjective) definition and synonyms | Macmillan Dictionary.
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What is the meaning of word nauseating?

Definition of nauseating

: causing nausea or especially disgust.
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