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suicidal
CIDE DICTIONARY
suicidal, a.
Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
suicidal, adj.
1 inclined to commit suicide.
2 of or concerning suicide.
3 self-destructive; fatally or disastrously rash.
1 inclined to commit suicide.
2 of or concerning suicide.
3 self-destructive; fatally or disastrously rash.
Derivative
suicidally adv.
THESAURUS
suicidal
baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bowed-down, calamitous, cast down, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, cruel, crushed, cut up, cutthroat, dashed, deadly, deep-troubled, dejected, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, depressed, desolate, desolating, despairing, despondent, desponding, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, doomful, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, fatal, fateful, feeling low, fratricidal, gory, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartless, heartsick, homicidal, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, internecine, languishing, low, low-spirited, miserable, murderous, nihilist, nihilistic, pessimistic, pining, ravaging, red-handed, ruining, ruinous, sanguinary, self-destructive, slaughterous, spiritless, stricken, subdued, subversionary, subversive, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, weary of life, withering, woebegone, woeful, world-weary, wretchedROGET THESAURUS
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Destruction
N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.For further exploring for "suicidal" in Webster Dictionary Online