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See also: god-like
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑdlaɪk/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒdlaɪk/
- Hyphenation: god‧like
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]godlike (comparative more godlike, superlative most godlike)
- Having the characteristics of a god.
- 1895, H. L. Mencken, transl., 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, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, Baen Books, →ISBN, →OL:
- When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate.
- 2001 July 14, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12, spoken by John Crichton (Ben Browder):
- Godlike aliens! Man, do I hate godlike aliens! I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!
- 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, Horace Mann, 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, Henry Kuttner, The Time Axis, published 1965, →OL:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]having characteristics of a god
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