Usually means: Mythical figure who flew too high.
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  1. Icarus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Icarus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Icarus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. Icarus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Icarus)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.

Similar:
Daedalus, Ixion, Itylos, Iacchos, Itylus, Iacchus, Icaria, Iakchos, Pigasus, Iphigenia, more...

Opposite:
daedalus, grounded, cautious, prudent

Phrases:
Icarus complex, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Kid Icarus, Icarus Falls, Flight of Icarus, more...

Adjectives:
young, poor, new, asteroid, hapless, modern, mythical, polyommatus, british, little, legendary

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Similar:
Daedalus, Ixion, Itylos, Iacchos, Itylus, Iacchus, Icaria, Iakchos, Pigasus, Iphigenia, more...

Opposite:
daedalus, grounded, cautious, prudent

Phrases:
Icarus complex, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Kid Icarus, Icarus Falls, Flight of Icarus, The Lament for Icarus, Icarus imagery in contemporary music, 1566 Icarus, The Icarus Factor, Icarus paradox, more...

Adjectives:
young, poor, new, asteroid, hapless, modern, mythical, polyommatus, british, little, legendary

Colors:
    gold,     yellow,     orange,     red,     crimson, more...



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