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god-like

god-like is the alternative spelling of godlike.

Meaning of godlike

Adjective

godlike (comparative more godlike, superlative most godlike)

  1. Having the characteristics of a god.
    • Man himself had been his greatest blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men godlike — it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific!1895, H. L. Mencken, transl., The Antichrist, translation of Der Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, §48
  2. Characteristic of a god.
    • And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.1817, John Keats, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

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Forms of god-like

comparativemore god-like
superlativemost god-like

Questions about god-like

What is god-like the alternative spelling of?
God-like is the alternative spelling of godlike.

Words near god-like in the dictionary

  1. god-grandmother
  2. god-grandmothers
  3. god-king
  4. god-kings
  5. god-less
  6. god-like
  7. god-modding
  8. god-saeng
  9. God-Save-the-Kinger
  10. God-Save-the-Kingers
  11. God-send

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