platonic
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- adjective
- /pləˈtɑːnɪk/
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platónico
- Keep in mind that Platonic love is not physical.
- platonic love
- platonic relationship
First question, Can guys have platonic girl best friends and vice versa?
- First question, Can guys have platonic girl best friends and vice versa?
- Keep in mind that Platonic love is not physical.
- That's like a super platonic, almost childish image.
- There's also a platonic tone and a desire tone.
- This is a romantic comedy, but it really mostly was about like platonic friendships.
- But the reporting I heard was that they were just platonic.
- And sometimes this is sexual as well as platonic.
- Oh, but in a deeply emotional and platonic sense.
- When that occurs, if they start to actually fight, it's no longer platonic.
- We just started hanging out as friends and became really, really good friends and it was just this super platonic thing.
- Oh, I think that's because the difference between platonic love and romantic love is almost paper thin really.
- But it's like, very weird, I think, for humans to think that a man and a woman can have trust with each other in an incredibly platonic way.
- You can have sex in a platonic relationship, but Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is.
- You know, our feelings now are just platonic, fam, familial.
Examples
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But, my dear, my feeling for you is purely platonic.
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I guess I have found the platonic relationship I wanted.
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I mean, but like a supposed platonic relationship at work.
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Remember, you are my platonic man friend.
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I think we ought to have a Platonic relationship.
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We just started hanging out as friends and became really, really good friends and it was just this super platonic thing.
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Oh, if your feelings fade down to just platonic, then this will be great.
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I'm talking about platonic friendships as adults.
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It's purely platonic.
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Vega and Adele were careful to keep their relationship platonic when the child was around.
Synonyms
Not involving love or attraction between people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A 3D shape with all the same regular flat faces, like a cube or tetrahedron
- Specialized
About 25,800 years when Earth's axis slowly turns and moves the seasons
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Etymology
Platonic comes from the Greek thinker Plato, who wrote about a kind of love that values a person's 'ideas' and 'mind' rather than the 'body'. So today platonic describes a close, caring relationship that is 'not sexual' or romantic.