Definition of Suicidal

1. Adjective. Dangerous to yourself or your interests. "A kamikaze pilot"

Exact synonyms: Self-destructive
Similar to: Dangerous, Unsafe
Derivative terms: Suicide

Definition of Suicidal

1. a. Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.

Definition of Suicidal

1. Adjective. Pertaining to suicide. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: informal) Extremely reckless. ¹

4. Noun. someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suicidal

1. self-destructive [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suicidal

suggillation
suggillations
sugging
suggings
sugh
sughed
sughing
sughs
sugi
sugilite
suh
suhur
sui
sui generis
sui juris
suicidal (current term)
suicidalities
suicidality
suicidally
suicidalness
suicidals
suicide
suicide Tuesday
suicide Tuesdays
suicide baiting
suicide batteries
suicide battery
suicide bomber
suicide bombers
suicide bombing

Literary usage of Suicidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"But it is obvious, that any of these parts may be also selected by a murderer, with the especial design of simulating a suicidal attempt ; therefore the ..."

2. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"suicidal wounds.—It is not often that any difficulty is experienced in distinguishing a suicidal from an accidental wound. When the wound has really been ..."

3. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1853)
"DISTINCTION OF suicidal FROM ACCIDENTAL WOUNDS—IMPORTANT IN CASES OF ... suicidal wounds.—It is not often that any difficulty is experienced in dis» ..."

4. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"Strangulation may be accidental or suicidal, but it is generally homicidal. The question whether a given case be one of suicidal or of homicidal ..."

5. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"suicidal MANIA.—SUICIDE NOT NECESSARILY AN INDICATION OP 15- ... suicidal monomania, or suicidal mania, is the name given to that form of insanity which is ..."

6. A Manual of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1880)
"suicidal MANIA.—SUICIDE NOT NECESSARILY AN INDICATION OF INSANITY. ... suicidal monomania, or suicidal mania, is the name given to that form of insanity ..."

7. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"But it is obvious, that any of these parts may be also selected by a murderer, with the especial design of simulating a suicidal attempt ; therefore the ..."

8. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"suicidal wounds.—It is not often that any difficulty is experienced in distinguishing a suicidal from an accidental wound. When the wound has really been ..."

9. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1853)
"DISTINCTION OF suicidal FROM ACCIDENTAL WOUNDS—IMPORTANT IN CASES OF ... suicidal wounds.—It is not often that any difficulty is experienced in dis» ..."

10. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"Strangulation may be accidental or suicidal, but it is generally homicidal. The question whether a given case be one of suicidal or of homicidal ..."

11. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"suicidal MANIA.—SUICIDE NOT NECESSARILY AN INDICATION OP 15- ... suicidal monomania, or suicidal mania, is the name given to that form of insanity which is ..."

12. A Manual of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1880)
"suicidal MANIA.—SUICIDE NOT NECESSARILY AN INDICATION OF INSANITY. ... suicidal monomania, or suicidal mania, is the name given to that form of insanity ..."

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