suicidaladjective
uk/ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/us/ˌsuː.əˈsaɪ.dəl/suicidal adjective (DEATH)
People who are suicidal want to kill themselves or are in a mental state in which it is likely that they will try to do so:
Pete was so depressed after his girlfriend left him that I actually thought he was suicidal.
Suicidal behaviour is likely to result in death:
He took some suicidal risks.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- wretched
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Dangers and threats
suicidal adjective (DEFEAT)
causing your own defeat or failure:
It would be suicidal to say that in a job interview.
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- wrong-foot
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suicidally
adverb uk/ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl.i/us/ˌsuː.əˈsaɪ.dəl.i/