adjective
definition
Having the characteristics of a god.
definition
Characteristic of a god.
Examples of godlike in a Sentence
How godlike, how immortal, is he?
The heart protests against the severance of death, and claims the continuance of love's communion after death; and as man feels that love is what is most godlike in his nature, love's claim has supreme authority.
Their earliest writers regarded the latter as the seat of the oldest and most godlike of mankind.
Dusty couldn't help but wonder how he'd gotten stuck with a pregnant Oracle and an equally moody teenager with godlike powers and no ability to control them.
Members see this apparent slaughter not as an act of evil, but as a Holy, almost godlike thing.
Jesus so godlike, being executed on the cross says, " Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.
We can mess it all up or we can become saints - become godlike!
But when they had offered the wine and drunk deep themselves, Athene and godlike Telemachus were ready to return to their hollow ship.
Next year the great tragic poem of Torquemada came forth to bear witness that the hand which wrote Ruy Blas had lost nothing of its godlike power and its matchless cunning, if the author of Le Roi s'amuse had ceased to care much about coherence of construction from the theatrical point of view as compared with the perfection of a tragedy designed for the devotion of students not unworthy or incapable of the study; that his command of pity and terror, his powers of intuition and invention, had never been more absolute and more sublime; and that his infinite and illimitable charity of imagination could transfigure even the most monstrous historic representative of Christian or Catholic diabolatry into the likeness of a terribly benevolent and a tragically magnificent monomaniac. Two years later Victor Hugo published the third and concluding series of La Legende des siecles.
They are gifted with enormous magical powers and are therefore godlike in their interactions with humankind.