Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Considering or desiring to commit suicide.
- adjective Relating to suicide.
- adjective Dangerous to oneself or to one's interests; self-destructive or ruinous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partaking or being of the nature of the crime of suicide; suggestive of suicide; leading to suicide: as, suicidal mania; hence, figuratively, destructive of one's aims or interests; self-destructive: as, a suicidal business policy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
suicide . - adjective of a person Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
- adjective informal Extremely reckless.
- noun someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dangerous to yourself or your interests
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Examples
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The word "ideation" also shows up in the phrase "suicidal ideation," meaning "thinking, often obsessively, about harming yourself."
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Psychotropic medication changes, polypharmacy, and the risk of early readmission in suicidal adolescent inpatients.
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Psychotropic medication changes, polypharmacy, and the risk of early readmission in suicidal adolescent inpatients.
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After that comes what I call the suicidal phase, where they CAN and WILL try anything and you are constantly on guard against their innocent joy in, for example, electrical cable or toilet brushes.
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Pichot MH, Auzepy P, Richard C. Acute drug poisoning in suicidal elderly patients 70 years old and over. 92 cases in a medical ICU.
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Everyone is buying into Hillary's psychopathy but Obama IS going to be the nominee otherwise the Democrats are just plain suicidal (or extremely stupid).
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This striking decrease in suicidal risk appears to flow from a newfound self-confidence in the vast majority of Katrina survivors, the researchers found.
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The survey showed no spike in suicidal tendencies in New Orleans but did find that half the city's survivors were having nightmares about their experiences, compared with a quarter of all survivors.
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You don't have to kill yourself to be engaging in suicidal behavior.
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You don't have to kill yourself to be engaging in suicidal behavior.
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