"suicidal" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌs(j)uː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/ [General-American], /ˌsu.ɪ-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-suicidal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more suicidal [comparative], most suicidal [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪdəl Etymology: suicide + -al Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|suicide|al}} suicide + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} suicidal (comparative more suicidal, superlative most suicidal)
  1. Pertaining to suicide. Categories (topical): Suicide Translations (pertaining to suicide): ⁧اِنْتِحَارِيّ⁩ (intiḥāriyy) (Arabic), ինքնասպանական (inkʿnaspanakan) (Armenian), самагу́бны (samahúbny) (Belarusian), суіцыда́льны (suicydálʹny) (Belarusian), самоуби́йствен (samoubíjstven) (Bulgarian), sebevražedný (Czech), selvmorderisk (Danish), itsemurha- (Finnish), itsetuhoinen (Finnish), suicidaire (French), Selbstmord- (German), Suizid- (German), suizidal (German), selbstmörderisch (German), öngyilkos (Hungarian), suicida (Italian), самоубиствен (samoubistven) (Macedonian), samobójczy (Polish), самоуби́йственный (samoubíjstvennyj) (Russian), суицида́льный (suicidálʹnyj) (Russian), су̏ицида̄лан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), sȕicidālan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), samovražedný (Slovak), samomorilen (Slovene), suicida (Spanish), самогу́бний (samohúbnyj) (Ukrainian), самовби́вчий (samovbývčyj) (Ukrainian), суїцида́льний (sujicydálʹnyj) (Ukrainian), hunanladdol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-suicidal-en-adj-PyVbUAeb Disambiguation of Suicide: 38 29 20 9 4 Disambiguation of 'pertaining to suicide': 91 4 5 0
  2. (of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. Tags: of a person Translations (likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide): самоуби́йствен (samoubíjstven) (Bulgarian), itsetuhoinen (Finnish), suicidaire (French), suizidgefährdet (German), samobójczy (Polish), скло́нный к суици́ду (sklónnyj k suicídu) (Russian), скло́нный к самоуби́йству (sklónnyj k samoubíjstvu) (Russian), су̏ицида̄лан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), sȕicidālan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), suicida (Spanish), självmordsbenägen (Swedish), suicidal [language, linguistics, human-sciences, sciences, technical, engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (Swedish), hunanladdol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-suicidal-en-adj-WMQaFRoR Disambiguation of 'likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide': 2 89 8 1
  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. Tags: of a voluntarily-chosen course of action
    Sense id: en-suicidal-en-adj-er496TRu
  4. (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless. Tags: excessive, informal Translations (extremely reckless): tyhmänrohkea (Finnish), itsetuhoinen (Finnish), selbstmörderisch (German)
    Sense id: en-suicidal-en-adj-D1E4Eakb Categories (other): English hyperboles Disambiguation of 'extremely reckless': 0 0 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: suicidal ideation Related terms: suicidality, suicidally, suicide

Noun

IPA: /ˌs(j)uː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/ [General-American], /ˌsu.ɪ-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-suicidal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: suicidals [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪdəl Etymology: suicide + -al Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|suicide|al}} suicide + -al Head templates: {{en-noun}} suicidal (plural suicidals)
  1. Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. Translations (someone suicidal): самоубиец (samoubiec) [masculine] (Bulgarian), itsemurhakandidaatti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-suicidal-en-noun-Bv7Ab7tD

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "February 24 2021, Paul Stephen, “Level crossings are one of our key risk areas”, in RAIL, number 925, page 46",
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          "text": "Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.",
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
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}
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    {
      "word": "nonsuicidal"
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    }
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        "comparative"
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        "superlative"
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        }
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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          "text": "After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.",
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        },
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          "ref": "July 1 2020, Ruth Sutherland, Neil Peters, “Answering the call”, in Rail, page 47",
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          "ref": "February 24 2021, Paul Stephen, “Level crossings are one of our key risk areas”, in RAIL, number 925, page 46",
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        "(of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide."
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        {
          "ref": "17 October 2018, Drachinifel, 33:41 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
          "text": "Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.",
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        "(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."
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      "tags": [
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "His driving habits are utterly suicidal.",
          "type": "example"
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        "(informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless."
      ],
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        "informal"
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      "ipa": "/ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/",
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        "General-American"
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        "General-American"
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      ],
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "intiḥāriyy",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "⁧اِنْتِحَارِيّ⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "inkʿnaspanakan",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "ինքնասպանական"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "samahúbny",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самагу́бны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "suicydálʹny",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "суіцыда́льны"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "samoubíjstven",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самоуби́йствен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "sebevražedný"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "selvmorderisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "itsemurha-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "itsetuhoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "suicidaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "Selbstmord-"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "Suizid-"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "suizidal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "selbstmörderisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "öngyilkos"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "suicida"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "samoubistven",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самоубиствен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "samobójczy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "samoubíjstvennyj",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самоуби́йственный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "suicidálʹnyj",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "суицида́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "су̏ицида̄лан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "sȕicidālan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "samovražedný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "samomorilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "suicida"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "samohúbnyj",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самогу́бний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "samovbývčyj",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "самовби́вчий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sujicydálʹnyj",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "суїцида́льний"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "pertaining to suicide",
      "word": "hunanladdol"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "samoubíjstven",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "самоуби́йствен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "itsetuhoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "suicidaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "suizidgefährdet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "samobójczy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sklónnyj k suicídu",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "скло́нный к суици́ду"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sklónnyj k samoubíjstvu",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "скло́нный к самоуби́йству"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "су̏ицида̄лан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "sȕicidālan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "suicida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "självmordsbenägen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
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        "language",
        "linguistics",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "technical",
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "suicidal"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide",
      "word": "hunanladdol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely reckless",
      "word": "tyhmänrohkea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely reckless",
      "word": "itsetuhoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely reckless",
      "word": "selbstmörderisch"
    }
  ],
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}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "suicide + -al",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "suicidals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "args": {},
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suicidal",
          "#Adjective"
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          "likely"
        ],
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          "kill"
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        [
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          "themselves"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌs(j)uː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsu.əˈsaɪ.dəl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsu.ɪ-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "samoubiec",
      "sense": "someone suicidal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "самоубиец"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone suicidal",
      "word": "itsemurhakandidaatti"
    }
  ],
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}

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