suicidal
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌsuːɪˈsaɪdəl/
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suicida
- All solutions involve raising taxes, a gesture considered suicidal in an election year.
- politically suicidal
That is a, in my view, suicidal policy.
- That is a, in my view, suicidal policy.
- And this has, I think the implication was that this is intentional or suicidal.
Examples
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A military officer sent Constantine on a suicidal mission.
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You barge in here unarmed when it is clearly suicidal to do so.
Fiction book (1995) -
Anybody who drives in this town is suicidal.
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It's a suicidal mission.
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Eddie makes a rapid, suicidal dive right down toward the pavement below.
Fiction book (1996) -
Model 1 included social isolation as the single independent predictor variable for suicidal behaviors.
Academic text (2007) -
Preempting nuclear forces is suicidal unless such an attack can reduce an adversary's nuclear arsenal to zero.
Academic text (1995) -
Most psychological approaches to suicide terrorism focus on the suicidal component and ignore terrorism and Islamism.
Academic text (2015) -
Worst of all, if the pyrotechnics that control the parachutes have been damaged, the chutes may not open at all, causing the spacecraft to hit the water not at a gentle 20 miles per hour, but at a suicidal 300.
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Taking that risky shortcut through the dark alley was a suicidal choice that could have ended badly.
Synonyms
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6.3
Tending to cause harm to the person who does it or to their life
Antonyms
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suicidal comes from Latin parts sui meaning 'of oneself' and -cide meaning 'to kill'. So calling a choice 'suicidal' gives the image of an action that would 'kill' your own chances or safety, and so it describes something very likely to cause serious harm or ruin.