God

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. god Supreme Being, Father in Heaven, Heavenly Father, the Almighty, Kings, the Creator, Brahma, Allah, Adonai, Lord, Jehovah, Holy Spirit, the Man Upstairs. ''Love.''—The Bible. ''A superior reasoning power . . . revealed in the incomprehensible universe.''—Albert Einstein. ''Conscience.''—Mohandas Gandhi. ''A light that is never darkened.''—Francis Quarles. ''A mighty fortress.''—Martin Luther. ''Personified incomprehensibility.''— George Lichtenberg. ''That which has no definition.''—Joseph Albo. ''A vengeful, pitiless, and almighty fiend.''—Percy Bysshe Shelley. ''An infantile fantasy . . . necessary when men did not know what lightning was.''—Edward Anhalt. ''A gaseous vertebrate.''—Ernst Haeckel.

2. deity goddess, divinity, spirit, idol.

ANT.: 1. the Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Prince of Darkness. 2. mortal, physical being

WORD FIND

• appearance of: theophany

• belief in god other than that of Jewish, Christian or Muslim faith: paganism

• cry of praise to God: hosanna

• disbelief in: atheism

• disbeliever: atheist

• half god, half human: demigod

• Hindu deity on earth: avatar

• human traits imagined in: anthropomorphism

• humans created by God not evolved, belief that: creationism

• Latin: Deus

• one, belief in more than: polytheism

• one, belief in only: monotheism

• questioner of God’s existence: agnostic

• questioning of God’s existence: agnosticism

• Son of God: Jesus Christ

• study of: theology

• universe and its natural laws are God, belief that: pantheism

see church, mythical deities, religion