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Definition: Godlike |
GodlikeAdjective1. 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. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Godlike \God"like`\, adjective. [God like. Compare to Godly.]. (references) |
Synonym: GodlikeSynonym: divine (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Virtue | Exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Godlike |
| English words defined with "godlike": deific, Deified, Deiform, divine ♦ Entheastic ♦ Like figures. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "godlike": Barzillai ♦ wizard mode. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He stands in silence, stoic, godlike, the mysterious blue avenger who has become legend to the simple folk of this bus station (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Horace Mann | To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This shews how much numbers of men are to be preferred to largeness of dominions; and that the increase of lands, and the right employing of them, is the great art of government: and that prince, who shall be so wise and godlike, as by established laws of liberty to secure protection and encouragement to the honest industry of mankind, against the oppression of power and narrowness of party, will quickly be too hard for his neighbours: but this by the by. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Godlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Godlike" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
godlike production | 51 |
godlike | 24 |
forum godlike production | 8 |
godlike rpg | 3 |
forum godlike | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "godlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hyjnor (celestial, divine, empyreal, heavenly, supernal). (various references) | |
Arabic | إلهي (celestial, godly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | божествен (celestial, divine, glorious, heavenly, olympian, seraphic, supernal). (various references) | |
Czech | boží (godly). (various references) | |
Farsi | خدامانند. (various references) | |
French | divin. (various references) | |
German | göttlich (divine). (various references) | |
Greek | θεϊκόσ (divine), θεοειδήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלקי, אלהי (divine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | isteni (aces, divine, divvy, to be all aces), istenhez hasonlatos, istenhez hasonló. (various references) | |
Italian | divino (divine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 神人 (godlike person, gods and men). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんじん (belief, careful, devotion, faith, godlike person, godliness, gods and men, mature, new face, newcomer, profound, true man). (various references) | |
Manx | jeeoil (divine, godly). (various references) | |
Norwegian | guddommelig (divine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odlikegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | semelhante a deus, olímpico (olympian, olympic), divino (divine). (various references) | |
Romanian | evlavios (bigoted, devotional, godly, pious), dumnezeiesc (divine, heavenly, wonderful), divin (celestial, divine), cucernic (devout, devoutly, godly, pious). (various references) | |
Russian | богоподобный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | božanski (divine, supernal). (various references) | |
Spanish | divino (divine). (various references) | |
Swedish | gudalik. (various references) | |
Turkish | tanrısal (celestial, divine, heavenly, holy, olympian, spiritual, supernal), tanrı gibi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | величний (andean, awful, dignified, elevated, exalted, lofty, magnific, magnifical, majestic, noble, olympian, portly, princely, proud, sovereign, stately), богоподібний, божественний (airy, ambrosial, celestial, divine, godly, heavenly, olympian, out of this world, supernal, supernatural). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như thần, như thánh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godlike": godlikeness, godlikenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Godlike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Godlee, goidelic, Goldeck, Goldecker, Goldeleh, Goldich, Golikov, Golke, Gorlice, Gorlovka, Gotlieb, hoodlike. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: doglike. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-k-l-o" | |
-1 letter: keloid. | |
-2 letters: dogie, gelid, geoid, glide, liked, lodge, ogled, oiled, oldie. | |
-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dike, diol, doge, dole, geld, gied, gild, gled, gold, idle, idol, kilo, koel, lido, lied, like, lode, loge, ogle. | |
-4 letters: del, die, dig, doe, dog, dol, ego, eld, elk, ged, gel, gid, gie, god, ilk, keg, kid, koi, led. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-k-l-o" | |
+1 letter: goadlike. | |
+2 letters: doughlike. | |
+3 letters: gridlocked. | |
+4 letters: deadlocking, godlikeness, goldbricked. | |
+5 letters: doughnutlike, misknowledge. | |
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