suicidal
IPA: suʌsˈaɪdʌɫ
noun
- Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.
adjective
- Pertaining to suicide.
- (of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
- (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.
- (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless.
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Examples of "suicidal" in Sentences
- You don't have to kill yourself to be engaging in suicidal behavior.
- Psychotropic medication changes, polypharmacy, and the risk of early readmission in suicidal adolescent inpatients.
- The word "ideation" also shows up in the phrase "suicidal ideation," meaning "thinking, often obsessively, about harming yourself."
- Pichot MH, Auzepy P, Richard C. Acute drug poisoning in suicidal elderly patients 70 years old and over. 92 cases in a medical ICU.
- 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).
- This striking decrease in suicidal risk appears to flow from a newfound self-confidence in the vast majority of Katrina survivors, the researchers found.
- 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.
- 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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