godlike

Etymology

god + -like

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a god.
   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! 1895, H. L. Mencken, transl., The Antichrist, translation of Der Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, §48
   When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. 1990-09-01, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, Baen Books, →OL
   Godlike aliens! Man, do I hate godlike aliens! I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day! 2001-07-14, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12, spoken by John Crichton (Ben Browder)
2. Characteristic of a god.
   And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. 1817, John Keats, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
   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. 1850, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
   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. 1949, Henry Kuttner, The Time Axis, published 1965, →OL