EGAVE

suicidal

About 3.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Pertaining to suicide.
    He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
  2. adjective Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
    After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.
  3. adjective 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. adjective Extremely reckless.
    His driving habits are utterly suicidal.
  5. noun Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.

Similar words

self-destructive dangerous unsafe suicide disastrous sick overkill reckless ideation jumper

Often followed by

behavior ideation thoughts tendencies and patients intent or behaviour

Word family

suicidally

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