suicidal

adjective

Definition of suicidalnext
as in depressed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suicidal
  1. depressed
  2. melancholic
  3. unhappy
  4. sad
  5. morbid
  6. melancholy
  7. inconsolable
  8. sorrowful
Adjective
  • Many people were really unhappy, depressed and angry, frustrated.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
  • If Richard wanted to die, suicide-by-cop is sometimes a choice for those who are desperate and depressed.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • Zauner says she was also influenced by the work of painters Caspar David Friedrich and Edgar Degas and the melancholic world-building of the novel Wuthering Heights.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The set of songs comes just moments after the artist dropped a melancholic short film that was written and directed by Benito himself and Arí Maniel Cruz Suárez.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of melancholic
Adjective
  • In 2018, Butler was months away from potentially becoming a free agent (as is the case now) and was unhappy with the Timberwolves (as is the case now, just with the Heat).
    Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That’s a sure sign coaches are unhappy with aspects of a player’s performance.
    Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of unhappy
Adjective
  • Of what relevance is an absurdist fable, written in German, about a sad man who transforms into an insect, to an American teenager in the twenty-first century?
    Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The sad scenes that accompanied Rooney’s final game at Oxford felt a long way from the surge of optimism that greeted his arrival in Devon on a three-year contract in May.
    Richard Amofa, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of sad
Adjective
  • The affable Liverpudlians inspired morbid theories among fans as their hair grew longer and their songs stranger.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • If nothing else, this eighth installment will offer yet another chance to see Cruise nearly obliterate his aging but somehow ageless physique performing some insanely dangerous new stunt — a morbid spectacle that, like his famous mug, never grows old.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of morbid
Adjective
  • The Heat’s 36-point loss to the NBA’s fifth-worst team over the weekend marked their third-largest home defeat in the last two decades and kept them hovering around .500 as a melancholy cloud hangs over the franchise’s head.
    James Jackson, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The melancholy song reaches a new high on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of melancholy
Adjective
  • Sterling is inconsolable and angry at Jeffrey for his fear of living.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Ryan Wettstein Nauman was inconsolable one evening last December.
    Bram Sable-Smith, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of inconsolable
Adjective
  • Landman Besides the sheer sorrowful swagger and script quality of Landman, timing has proved almost everything for the Billy Bob Thornton star vehicle from Taylor Sheridan.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Added to this inventory are a set of gilded organ pipes and stained glass panels adorned with sorrowful lilies.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of sorrowful
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