adonis

adonis is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
2. noun. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
3. noun. A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
4. noun. (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone

   "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite"

5. noun. any handsome young man
6. noun. annual or perennial herbs

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in adonis:

danios, dosain

Common word forms

adonises

Words from these letters

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