English Explanatory Dictionary

suicidal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to suicide.
  2. Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
  3. Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
  4. Extremely reckless.
noun
  1. Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.

Pronunciation

/ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/ /ˌsjuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-suicidal.wav /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/ /ˌsu.ɪ-/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-suicidal.wav

Word forms

suicidal more suicidal most suicidal suicidals

Etymology

From suicide + -al.

Antonyms

nonsuicidal

Related words

suicidality suicidally suicide

Derived words

antisuicidal depressive suicidal black metal parasuicidal postsuicidal presuicidal pseudosuicidal sillycidal subsuicidal suicidal empathy suicidal ideation suicidalism suicidalness
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