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suicidally

suicidally

3 9.4
In a way that greatly risks your own life
  • adverb
  • /suˈaɪsɪdəli/
  • NSFW
: suicidalmente
  • He drove suicidally fast through the busy streets, showing no regard for his safety.
  • suicidally depressed

Examples

  • - I'm suicidally depressed.

  • That qualifies as suicidally insane to me.

    Blog text (20)
  • Let's think about that when we're suicidally looking at our text messages.

  • The more the conversation is about economics, the more suicidally depressed I get.

    Blog text (9)
  • The fact is, Larren himself grew suicidally depressed.

  • I ate desperately, greedily, suicidally; I ate because there was nothing else to do, nowhere to go, no escape from the reality that was Fred.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • As historian Helen Nicholson puts it, they were suicidally reckless.

  • America's out there producing dozens of suicidally pissed-off insurgents every day.

  • Somewhere, sometime, I forgot or neglected one of the safety protocols and did something suicidally, crazily wrong—the kind of thing that, once discovered, would lead to me being relieved for incompetence.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Her decision to climb that steep cliff without any safety gear was suicidally reckless.

Antonyms

417 1.0

In a way that does not cause harm

56 2.3

To do something in a careful way to avoid danger or mistakes

How Dangerous

suicidally
  • NSFW
3 9.4
dangerously
96 3.2
recklessly
29 4.6
riskily
1 6.4

Surface Forms

suicidally positive

Morphology

suicidally = suicidal (transparent) = suicide + al + ly

The adverb 'suicidally' is transparently derived from the adjective 'suicidal' by adding the suffix '-ly'.

Etymology

Suicidally comes from suicide, which breaks into sui- meaning 'oneself' and -cide meaning 'kill', the same -cide you see in homicide. So suicidally means 'in a way that could kill yourself' and is used for very dangerous or self-destructive actions.