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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
godlike is an adjective meaning "appropriate to or befitting a god". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
being or having the nature of a god
“the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers”
“the divine will”
“the divine capacity for love”
“'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for godlike come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.