adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to suicide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonsuicidal
Standard Lemma guide
suicidal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsjuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
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General-American: /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/
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General-American: /ˌsu.ɪ-/
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rhymes with -aɪdəl
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adj
Meaning 2
Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Extremely reckless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: excessive, informal
Examples
- His driving habits are utterly suicidal.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
dangerous to yourself or your interests
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- suicidal impulses
- a suicidal corporate takeover strategy
- a kamikaze pilot
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-destructive
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From suicide + -al.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِنْتِحَارِيّ (intiḥāriyy) — pertaining to suicide
- Armenian: ինքնասպանական (inkʻnaspanakan) — pertaining to suicide
- Belarusian: самагу́бны (samahúbny) — pertaining to suicide
- Belarusian: суіцыда́льны (suicydálʹny) — pertaining to suicide
- Bulgarian: самоуби́йствен (samoubíjstven) — pertaining to suicide
- Czech: sebevražedný — pertaining to suicide
- Danish: selvmorderisk — pertaining to suicide
- Dutch: zelfmoord — pertaining to suicide
- Finnish: itsemurha- — pertaining to suicide
- Finnish: itsetuhoinen — pertaining to suicide
- French: suicidaire — pertaining to suicide
- German: Selbstmord- — pertaining to suicide
- German: suizidal — pertaining to suicide
- Hindi: आत्मघाती (ātmaghātī) — pertaining to suicide
- Hungarian: öngyilkos — pertaining to suicide
- Irish: féinmharfach — pertaining to suicide
- Italian: suicida — pertaining to suicide
- Macedonian: самоубиствен (samoubistven) — pertaining to suicide
- Polish: samobójczy — pertaining to suicide
- Russian: самоуби́йственный (samoubíjstvennyj) — pertaining to suicide
- Russian: суицида́льный (suicidálʹnyj) — pertaining to suicide
- Serbo-Croatian: су̏ицида̄лан — pertaining to suicide
- Serbo-Croatian: sȕicidālan — pertaining to suicide
- Slovak: samovražedný — pertaining to suicide
- Slovene: samomorilen — pertaining to suicide
- Spanish: suicida — pertaining to suicide
- Ukrainian: самогу́бний (samohúbnyj) — pertaining to suicide
- Ukrainian: самовби́вчий (samovbývčyj) — pertaining to suicide
- Ukrainian: суїцида́льний (sujicydálʹnyj) — pertaining to suicide
- Welsh: hunanladdol — pertaining to suicide
- Bulgarian: самоуби́йствен (samoubíjstven) — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Dutch: suïcidaal — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Finnish: itsetuhoinen — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- French: suicidaire — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- German: suizidgefährdet — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Hindi: आत्मघाती (ātmaghātī) — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Hungarian: öngyilkos — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Icelandic: í sjálfsmorðshættu — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Irish: i riocht tú fein a mharú — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Polish: samobójczy — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Russian: скло́нный к суици́ду (sklónnyj k suicídu) — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Russian: скло́нный к самоуби́йству (sklónnyj k samoubíjstvu) — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Serbo-Croatian: су̏ицида̄лан — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Serbo-Croatian: sȕicidālan — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Spanish: suicida — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Swedish: självmordsbenägen — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Swedish: suicidal — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Welsh: hunanladdol — likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide
- Dutch: levensmoe — extremely reckless
- Finnish: tyhmänrohkea — extremely reckless
- Finnish: itsetuhoinen — extremely reckless
- German: selbstmörderisch — extremely reckless
- Hungarian: öngyilkos — extremely reckless
- Bulgarian: самоубиец (samoubiec) — someone suicidal
- Finnish: itsemurhakandidaatti — someone suicidal
- Hindi: आत्मघाती (ātmaghātī) — someone suicidal