Ungodly means shockingly bad, unreasonable, or excessive. When your alarm goes off at what feels like an ungodly hour, you mean it's absurdly early, like 4:30 in the morning when it's still dark outside and everyone sensible is asleep. When someone complains about the ungodly noise from construction next door, they're saying it's unreasonably loud and disruptive.

The word originally meant “not respecting God” or “wicked,” and you might still encounter it with that meaning in older books. But today, people mostly use it to emphasize that something is extreme or outrageous. An ungodly amount of homework means far more than seems fair or reasonable. An ungodly mess in your room means it's spectacularly disorganized, beyond normal clutter.

The word carries a sense of complaint or disbelief, emphasizing that something is unreasonable. When you say the movie theater charged an ungodly price for popcorn, you're expressing your shock at how expensive it was.