Godlike

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Godlike \God"like`\, a. [God + like. Cf. {Godly}.]
     Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence,
     preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- {God"like`ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  godlike
       adj 1: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of
              Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play
              God for he has acquired certain godlike
              powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: {divine}]
       2: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing
          the divine king upon any serious failure of
          his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine
          capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to
          create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: {divine}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "godlike":
     Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, angelic, august, beatific,
     blessed, blissful, celestial, distinguished, divine, ecstatic,
     elevated, eminent, empyrean, ethereal, exalted, famous, glorious,
     godly, godly-minded, good, heavenly, heroic, high, holy,
     holy-minded, incarnate, incarnated, intercessional, intercessive,
     lauded, lofty, made flesh, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic,
     mediative, mediatory, noble, otherworldly, prominent, propitiative,
     propitiatory, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, rapturous,
     redemptive, renowned, righteous, sacred, sainted, saintlike,
     saintly, salvational, self-existent, seraphic, soaring, spiritual,
     spiritual-minded, sublime, superb, superhuman, supernatural,
     towering, transcendent, unearthly, unworldly