Usually means: Attraction to opposite-sex parent.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word oedipal:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. oedipal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oedipal: Merriam-Webster
  3. Oedipal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oedipal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oedipal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Oedipal, oedipal: Wordnik
  7. oedipal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Oedipal, oedipal: Wiktionary
  9. Oedipal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oedipal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oedipal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oedipal: Dictionary.com
  13. Oedipal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Oedipal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. oedipal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oedipal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. oedipal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. oedipal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oedipal: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

(Note: See oedipally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Oedipal)

adjective:  (psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Oedipal [(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.]

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