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self-injurious

self-injurious adjective: causing injury or harm to oneself.

Adjective

self-injurious (comparative more self-injurious, superlative most self-injurious)

  1. Causing injury or harm to oneself.
    • We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the...

Forms of self-injurious

comparativemore self-injurious
superlativemost self-injurious

Origin of self-injurious

From self- + injurious.

Words formed from self-injurious

Questions about self-injurious

What does self-injurious mean?
Self-injurious means causing injury or harm to oneself.
What part of speech is self-injurious?
Self-injurious is an adjective.

Words near self-injurious in the dictionary

  1. self-injurer
  2. self-injurers
  3. self-injures
  4. self-injuries
  5. self-injuring
  6. self-injurious
  7. self-injury
  8. self-insert
  9. self-inserted
  10. self-inserting
  11. self-insertion

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