suicidal

Definition of suicidalnext
as in depressed

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Adjective
  • Our bull thesis was based on the stock’s price-to-earnings multiple re-rating higher from a depressed valuation after the spin.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The latter initially presents in Ferrari yellow until its depressed into the central console, at which point the key turns black, the top of the glass shifter turns yellow, and all the instrumentation activates.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • There’s a wry grace to this misadventure-palooza, forged in the key of melancholic mid-career Woody Allen but with variations on those themes which achieve their own pointedly funny clarity, especially where Ubeimar Rios’ all-time portrayal of a sad sack is concerned.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There's a melancholic tone, an aesthetic darkness and a general abnormality to the new Marvel series that makes it unlike any Marvel series or film before it.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Many people have a profound attachment to suffering and staying in unhappy relationships and so a lot of my work is trying to figure out why.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The day after the Super Bowl, some people are guaranteed to be unhappy.
    Mike Snider, AZCentral.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie's Arizona community gathered for a vigil Wednesday evening while the world can't look away from an incident that is deeply, horrifically sad and frightening.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The song is sophisticated and simple, sad and somehow triumphant.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Directed by Cathy Yan, The Gallerist is an art world satire with a morbid twist.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Despite its serious subject matter, the novel is neither morbid nor morose.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Not with breaking transfer news but with an umpteenth text asking what was up and, with more melancholy, why more wasn’t up and why everyone was being so frugal.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The experience promises to be bracingly new, chaotic, and exciting, but there was inevitably a melancholy tinge to this year’s edition, which became, in effect—and affect—an eleven-day farewell.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • As online hate poured in after the release of Season 1, Leavitt was inconsolable.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The delicate little boy for stretches happily watched a television screen or slept but, at others, was inconsolable.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • With its family friction and its outsiders’ view of a fast-growing city in a young, postwar country, Shame and Money casts a piercing, sorrowful gaze at the ground-level effects of globalization.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Amazon Prime offers a wide selection of sad movies, catering to various tastes, from sorrowful classics like Bicycle Thieves (1948) to heartbreaking modern dramas like Till (2022), each guaranteed to get your tear ducts working overtime.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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