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suicidical

suicidical is the obsolete form of suicidal.

Meaning of suicidal

Adjective

suicidal (comparative more suicidal, superlative most suicidal)

  1. Pertaining to suicide.
    • He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
    Antonyms:
    nonsuicidal
  2. Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
    • After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.
  3. Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
    • Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody...2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 33:41 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022
  4. (excessive, informal) Extremely reckless.
    • His driving habits are utterly suicidal.

See all 5 meanings of suicidal

Forms of suicidical

comparativemore suicidical
superlativemost suicidical

Origin of suicidical

From suicide + -ical.

Questions about suicidical

What is suicidical the obsolete form of?
Suicidical is the obsolete form of suicidal.

Words near suicidical in the dictionary

  1. suicidelike
  2. suicider
  3. suiciders
  4. suicides
  5. suicides by cop
  6. suicidical
  7. suiciding
  8. suicidism
  9. suicidist
  10. suicidists
  11. suicidogenic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suicidical (page history and authors); suicidal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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