Dictionary

godlike en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɡɒdlaɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɡɑdlaɪk/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English godlike From god + -like.

Meanings

1. Having the characteristics of a god.
   • Godlike aliens! Man, do I hate godlike aliens! 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):
   • 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.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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

Deriveds

ungodlike · godlikeness

Translations (36)

grc ἰσόθεος (having characteristics of a god) · fr divin (having characteristics of a god) · el θεϊκός (having characteristics of a god) · ca diví (having characteristics of a god) · da gudelig (having characteristics of a god) · de gottgleich (having characteristics of a god) · th ขั้นเทพ (having characteristics of a god) · zh 似神 (having characteristics of a god) · bg божествен (having characteristics of a god) · th เทวดา (having characteristics of a god) · sv gudalik (having characteristics of a god) · ar مُتَأَلِه (having characteristics of a god) · ca deïforme (having characteristics of a god) · ru богоподо́бный (having characteristics of a god) · lt dieviškas (having characteristics of a god) · uk богоподі́бний (having characteristics of a god) · pt divino (having characteristics of a god) · hu Isten-szerű (having characteristics of a god) · nl goddelijk (having characteristics of a god) · hu istenszerű (having characteristics of a god) · th ชั้นเซียน (having characteristics of a god) · ro divin (having characteristics of a god) · grc θεοειδής (having characteristics of a god) · uk боже́ственний (having characteristics of a god) · ru боже́ственный (having characteristics of a god) · grc θεοείκελος (having characteristics of a god) · fi jumalainen (having characteristics of a god) · ro dumnezeiesc (having characteristics of a god) · hu isteni (having characteristics of a god) · es divino (having characteristics of a god) · vi thần thánh (having characteristics of a god) · de göttlich (having characteristics of a god) · pl boski (having characteristics of a god) · mr देवासारखा (having characteristics of a god) · cs božský (having characteristics of a god) · bg богоподобен (having characteristics of a god)