Usually means: In a non-romantic, purely friendship way.
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  1. platonically: Merriam-Webster
  2. platonically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. platonically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Platonically, platonically: Vocabulary.com
  5. platonically: Wordnik
  6. platonically: Wiktionary
  7. Platonically: Dictionary.com
  8. Platonically: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Platonically: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. platonically: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Platonically: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. platonically: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. platonically: FreeDictionary.org
  14. platonically: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Platonically: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. platonically: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a platonic manner.

Similar:
platitudinally, philosophically, Aristotelianly, Pythagorically, nonphilosophically, Socratically, metaphysically, commonplacely, nonmetaphysically, platitudinously, more...

Opposite:
romantically, intimately, sexually

Types:
platonic, more...

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Similar:
platitudinally, philosophically, Aristotelianly, Pythagorically, nonphilosophically, Socratically, metaphysically, commonplacely, nonmetaphysically, platitudinously, more...

Opposite:
romantically, intimately, sexually

Types:
platonic, more...



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