suicidal

Definition of suicidalnext
as in depressed

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Adjective
  • The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
    Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Supergirl is a story about a depressed, super-powered woman who is pulled out of her bar-hopping to help other people and find her purpose.
    Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • Driven heavily by lyricism, especially that of the melancholic Mexican singer Ed Maverick, and his ability to forge a new path in the Mexican indie folk scene, Selines dreamt of becoming a professional singer at 15.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
    Jez Fielder, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • The decade was an unhappy panorama of inflation, gas shortages, military humiliation, and revelations of political corruption.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • On Tuesday, Paul urged Americans who are unhappy with the justices’ ruling to support his proposal.
    Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • Day broke, bathing everything in light, and so great was the vitality of the early-morning sun that even the unhappy city seemed to smile a wan, sad smile.
    Vasily Grossman, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • But SpringHill really took off in 2020, two seasons into James’ Lakers term, when The SpringHill Company went public (and the Lakers won the sad COVID-bubble NBA Championship).
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
Adjective
  • The Genesee County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease, with morbid obesity listed as a contributing condition.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • Leyton, citing an autopsy, told WNEM that Casper O'Brien died of a heart muscle disease, with morbid obesity being a contributing factor.
    Nick Lentz, CBS News, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • That melancholy was discovered by the Romantics, and, in its coarser variation, was equivalent to despair.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • Additionally, Owens' youngest child, Titus, who was just a toddler when his mother died, was confused, irritable and inconsolable in the weeks after her death, Dias shared.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • The child’s relatives were inconsolable outside the home after the child was rushed to the hospital, witnesses said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Adjective
  • Much like their 1990s grunge and alt-rock contemporaries in America, Canada’s Our Lady Peace were writing and recording murky, sorrowful songs about youthful frustration and adult rage, love lost and societal alienation.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026
  • This movie’s nail-biting, sorrowful power comes from what internalized destruction looks like.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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