He's not my boyfriend, it's just platonic love with benefits!
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Platonic
//pləˈtɒnɪk//
Synonyms for "platonic" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Antonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
15 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Πλατωνικός adj (related to Plato)
Arabic
2 entries- أَفْلَاطُونِيّ adj (related to Plato)
- أَفْلَاطُونِيّ adj (not sexual in nature)
Belarusian
1 entries- платані́чны adj (not sexual in nature)
Bulgarian
1 entries- платоничен adj (not sexual in nature)
Catalan
2 entries- platònic adj (related to Plato)
- platònic adj (not sexual in nature)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 柏拉圖式 /柏拉图式 adj (not sexual in nature)
Czech
2 entries- platonický adj (not sexual in nature)
- platónský adj (related to Plato)
Danish
1 entries- platonisk adj (not sexual in nature)
Estonian
2 entries- platooniline adj (related to Plato)
- platooniline adj (not sexual in nature)
Finnish
2 entries- platonilainen adj (related to Plato)
- platoninen adj (not sexual in nature)
French
2 entries- platonicien adj (related to Plato)
- platonique adj (not sexual in nature)
Georgian
2 entries- პლატონური adj (related to Plato)
- პლატონური adj (not sexual in nature)
German
2 entries- platonisch adj (related to Plato)
- platonisch adj (not sexual in nature)
Greek
2 entries- πλατωνικός adj (related to Plato)
- πλατωνικός adj (not sexual in nature)
Hungarian
1 entries- plátói adj (not sexual in nature)
Icelandic
4 entries- andlegur adj (not sexual in nature)
- háleitur adj (not sexual in nature)
- laus við holdlega fýsn adj (not sexual in nature)
- lostalaus adj (not sexual in nature)
Ido
1 entries- Platonala adj (related to Plato)
Irish
2 entries- Platónach adj (related to Plato)
- platónach adj (not sexual in nature)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- platonsk adj (related to Plato)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- platonsk adj (related to Plato)
Persian
1 entries- افلاطونی adj (not sexual in nature)
Polish
2 entries- platoniczny adj (not sexual in nature)
- platoński adj (related to Plato)
Portuguese
2 entries- platónico adj (not sexual in nature)
- platônico adj (not sexual in nature)
Russian
1 entries- платони́ческий adj (not sexual in nature)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- plàtōnskī adj (related to Plato)
- пла̀то̄нскӣ adj (related to Plato)
Slovak
2 entries- platonický adj (not sexual in nature)
- platónsky adj (related to Plato)
Spanish
2 entries- platónico adj (related to Plato)
- platónico adj (not sexual in nature)
Ukrainian
1 entries- платоні́чний adj (not sexual in nature)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּלאַטאָניש adj (related to Plato)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.
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Tom is just a platonic friend.
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Is their relationship platonic?
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