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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling or of the nature of a god or God; divine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Like God or a god in any respect; of divine quality; partaking of or exercising divine attributes; supremely excellent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having the characteristics of a god.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. appropriate to or befitting a god
  2. adj. being or having the nature of a god

Etymologies

  1. god +‎ -like (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I hesitate to use the word 'godlike,' because it's a little strong, but he really is a mythical figure around here," said Ben Jones, a Penn State student who covers the football team for the blog BlackShoeDiaries.com.”

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post

  • “Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860

  • “I dare to assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.”

    Chapter 1 -- Foreword

  • “I dare assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.”

    The Voyage of the "Snark"

  • “Machinery is killing more and more of what we call the godlike in us. ”

    The Great Hunger

  • “I had witnessed an act of magnanimity it would not be impious to call godlike; I felt a need to know the outcome.”

    The Mask of Apollo

  • “Valentine calls a godlike angel, and of whom the rabbis said, "His name is like unto the name of his Master.”

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

  • “My own conviction is, that if a man would but bend his energies to live, if he would but try to be a true, that is, a godlike man, in all his dealings with his fellows,”

    Malcolm

  • “But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off, [343] and by no means near at hand.”

    The Iliad of Homer (1873)

  • “Those students who are still making comments online should be disabused of the thought that they are entertaining that they have a "godlike" status, and are somehow powerful, as they slander this victim.”

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