ADONIS meaning: Extremely handsome and attractive man

We found 44 dictionaries that define the word adonis:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

Adonis: Merriam-Webster
Adonis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Adonis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Adonis: Collins English Dictionary
Adonis, adonis: Vocabulary.com
Adonis, adonis: Wordnik
Adonis, adonis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Adonis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Adonis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Adonis: Infoplease Dictionary
Adonis: Dictionary.com
Adonis: Online Etymology Dictionary
ADONIS (software), Adonis (artist), Adonis (cocktail), Adonis (disambiguation), Adonis (musical), Adonis (musician), Adonis (mythology), Adonis (plant), Adonis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Adonis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
adonis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Adonis: Rhymezone
Adonis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
adonis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Adonis: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
ADONIS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
adonis: FreeDictionary.org
Adonis: The Word Detective
Adonis: TheFreeDictionary.com
adonis: Mnemonic Dictionary
Adonis: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
adonis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Adonis: Merriam-Webster
Adonis: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)

An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Adonis (mythology), Adonis (poet), Adonis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

adonis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Adonis (mythology), Adonis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
adonis: A Word A Day
adonis: Wordcraft Dictionary
ADONIS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

adonis: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

adonis: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Adonis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Adonis)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
▸ noun:  (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
▸ noun:  A beautiful man.

Opposite:

ugly, hideous, grotesque

Types:

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Bradley Cooper, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, more...

Phrases:

Adonis blue, greek adonis, adonis annua, genus adonis, adonis (mythology), more...

Adjectives:

young, beautiful, dead, fair, blond, handsome, perfect, beloved, syrian, lovely, dear

Colors:

azure, cerulean, sapphire, sky blue, royal blue, more...

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