Thesaurus:God forbid
English
Adverbial phrase
Sense: emphasising undesirability
Synonyms
Antonyms
- Deo volente (Latin loan)
- from someone's mouth to God's ears
- God willing
- God willing and the creek don't rise
- gods willing (polytheistic or secularly jocular)
- hopefully
- knock on wood
- inshallah (Islam-specific wording)
- Lord willing
- Lord willing and the creek don't rise
- please God (= if it [should] please God)
- touch wood
Interjection
Sense: emphasising unlikelihood
Synonyms
- God forbid
- heaven forfend
- absit omen
- heaven forbid
- God forfend
- I should hope not
Coordinate terms
See also: Thesaurus:no