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uranian

adjective
  1. Celestial, heavenly; uranic.

  2. Homosexual; (specifically) relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; pederastic; also, of poetry: conveying appreciation for young men.

    Similar: uranistic

  3. Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the earthly aspect known as Aphrodite Pandemos: heavenly, spiritual.

Synonymsuranical, uranistic
AntonymsPandemic, pandemian, chthonian, chthonic, earthbound, earthly
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.

adjective
  1. Describing minerals containing hexavalent uranium.

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