Word info Synonyms Antonyms

narcissus

Speech parts

1. narcissus - Noun

2. Narcissus - Proper noun

Meaning

A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.

A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Related terms

Phrases with the word

Derivatives

Examples

A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7). Source: Internet

Deranged by lust, Dané searches for Narcissus, naked but for a cloak, and finds him at the point of death. Source: Internet

He had prayed to the gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked. Source: Internet

Hermann Hesse 's character "Narcissus" in " Narcissus and Goldmund " shares several of mythical Narcissus' traits, although his narcissism is based on his intellect rather than his physical beauty. Source: Internet

In it, a young man named Aminias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Source: Internet

In the four manuscripts that remain, an unknown author borrows from the Echo and Narcissus of Ovid to create a story better suited to the needs of his time. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms