different between platonic vs smitten

English

Alternative forms

• Platonic
• Platonick
• platonick

Etymology

Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??t?n?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pl??t?n?k/

Adjective

platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)

1. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.

   They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

2. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:

     Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.

Antonyms

• romantic, sexual

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• platicon

Romanian

Etymology

From French platonique

Adjective

platonic m or n (feminine singular platonic?, masculine plural platonici, feminine and neuter plural platonice)

1. platonic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English smiten, from Old English smiten, ?esmiten, from Proto-Germanic *smitanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (“to hurl; fling”), equivalent to smite +? -en (past participle ending).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm?t?n/
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: smit?ten

Adjective

smitten (comparative more smitten, superlative most smitten)

1. Affected by an act of smiting.
   1. Made irrationally enthusiastic.
   2. In love.
      • 1912, Thomas Holmes, “Marriage in the Underworld”, in London's Underworld (The Making of the Modern Law), London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, OCLC 60735063; republished as London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84331-219-2, page 118:

        At the end of the long procession came a smitten woman. […] I think of the women who have fastened the tendrils of their heart's affection round unworthy men, and have married them, hoping, trusting and believing that their love and influence would be powerful enough to win the men to sobriety and virtue. Alas! how mistaken they have been!

Translations

See also

• crush
• infatuation
• platonic love

Verb

smitten

1. past participle of smite.

Anagrams

• Mittens, mist net, mistnet, mittens

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

smitten m

1. definite singular of smitte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

smitten m

1. definite singular of smitte