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Webster 1913 Edition


Godlike

God′likeˊ

,
Adj.
[
God
+
like.
Cf.
Godly
.]
Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good;
as,
godlike
virtue
.
God′likeˊness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Godlike

GOD'LIKE

,
Adj.
Resembling God; divine.
1.
Resembling a deity,or heathen divinity.
2.
Of superior excellence; as godlike virtue; a godlike prince.

Definition 2024


godlike

godlike

See also: god-like

English

Adjective

godlike (comparative more godlike, superlative most godlike)

  1. Having the characteristics of a god.
    • 1895, H. L. Mencken (translator), The Antichrist, translation of Der Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, §48:
      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!
    • 1990 September 1, Bujold, Lois McMaster, The Vor Game, Baen Books, ISBN 9780671720148, OL 7663039M:
      When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate.
    • 2001 July 14, Ben Browder as John Crichton, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12:
      Godlike aliens! Man, do I hate godlike aliens! I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!
  2. Characteristic of a god.
    • 1817, John Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”:
      And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
    • 1850, Mann, Horace, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man:
      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.
    • 1949, Kuttner, Henry, The Time Axis, published 1965, OL 22036162M:
      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.

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