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godlike

Syllables: god·likeUK/ˈɡɒdlaɪk//ˈɡɑdlaɪk/

godlike adjective: having the characteristics of a god.

Adjective (1)

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
    • When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate.1990 September 1, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, Baen Books, →ISBN, →OL
  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
    • Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts.1850, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

Adjective (2) capitalized: Godlike

Godlike (comparative more Godlike, superlative most Godlike)

  1. Similar or comparable to God, the sole deity of a monotheistic religion.

godlike meaning in Marathi, Malayalam, Arabic and Thai

godlike in Marathi

having characteristics of a god
देवासारखा devāsārkhā

godlike in Malayalam

godly, divine, superhu-man
ദേവതുല്യം, ദെെവിക, ഈശ്വരസമാനമായ, ദിവ്യ, ദേവോപമം, ദിവ്യം

godlike in Arabic

having characteristics of a god
مُتَأَلِه mutaʔalih

godlike in Thai

having characteristics of a god
เทวดา tee-wá-daa, ชั้นเซียน, ขั้นเทพ
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godlike in Vietnamese
thần thánh

Examples of godlike in a sentence

  • I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!2001 July 14, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12, spoken by John Crichton (Ben Browder):
  • It took the combined skills of three great civilizations far apart in time to frame that godlike concept in which the tangible universe itself was only a single factor.1949, Henry Kuttner, The Time Axis, published 1965, →OL:

Forms of godlike

comparativemore godlike
superlativemost godlike
comparativemore Godlike
superlativemost Godlike

Origin of godlike

From god + -like.

From God + -like; compare godlike.

Words formed from godlike

Questions about godlike

What does godlike mean?
Godlike means having the characteristics of a god.
What is godlike in Marathi?
Godlike in Marathi is देवासारखा (devāsārkhā). See Godlike meaning in Marathi.
How do you use godlike in a sentence?
I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!
What part of speech is godlike?
Godlike is an adjective.
How do you pronounce godlike?
Godlike is pronounced /ˈɡɑdlaɪk/ (US).

Words near godlike in the dictionary

  1. Godley
  2. Godley Green
  3. Godleys
  4. godlier
  5. godliest
  6. godlike
  7. godlikeness
  8. godlikenesses
  9. godlily
  10. godliness
  11. godlinesse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: godlike (page history and authors); Godlike (page history and authors); godlike (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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