adjective
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involving, indicating, or tending towards suicide
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liable to result in suicide
a suicidal attempt
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liable to destroy one's own interests or prospects; dangerously rash
Other Word Forms
- pseudosuicidal adjective
- suicidally adverb
- unsuicidal adjective
- unsuicidally adverb
Etymology
Origin of suicidal
Example Sentences
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“The fact the officers’ actions were taken against a possibly suicidal person who was experiencing a mental break and suffered physical limitations does little to assuage the emotional response to such a tragedy.”
From Los Angeles Times
Potential adverse events the companies knew about included depression, suicidal ideation, somnolence, edema, dizziness and confusion, documents from lawsuits show.
Musk got this “suicidal empathy” language from Gad Saad, a Canadian college professor who falsely presents himself as an “evolutionary behavioral scientist.”
From Salon
Last month, OpenAI published a study based on ChatGPT usage that found the mental health conversations that trigger safety concerns like psychosis, mania or suicidal thinking are “extremely rare.”
From Los Angeles Times
Schwartzman’s lab found that when the questionnaire was administered verbally to autistic kids, it flagged only 80% of those in the study group who were having suicidal thoughts.
From Los Angeles Times
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