Crossword-Solution: PLATONIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Platonic | a. | Alt. of Platonical |
| Platonic | n. | A follower of Plato; a Platonist. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLATONIC (5)
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
Tried by this test, several of the Platonic Dialogues, according to our modern ideas, appear to be defective, but the deficiency is no proof that they were composed at different times or by different hands.
Besides, she has promised me.” “I have no doubt her promise is worth a great deal more than your own,” said Newman; “nevertheless I don’t give her up.” “Just as you please! But if she won’t even see you,—and she won’t,—your constancy must remain purely Platonic.” Poor Newman was feigning a greater confidence than he felt.
The intimacy between them had been kept so abstract, such a matter of the soul, all thought and weary struggle into consciousness, that he saw it only as a platonic friendship.
Then came the conversation in which he told her that he intended their relations to be platonic, and, remembering an incident of their common past, it occurred to her that he dreaded the possibility of her being pregnant.
Quotes with PLATONIC (3)
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).