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Despairing vs Suicidal - What's the difference?

despairing | suicidal |

As adjectives the difference between despairing and suicidal

is that despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless while suicidal is pertaining to suicide.

As nouns the difference between despairing and suicidal

is that despairing is a mood or display of despair while suicidal is someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves.

As a verb despairing

is .

despairing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mood or display of despair.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.

    suicidal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to suicide.
    • He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
  • (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 .
  • (informal) Extremely reckless.
    • His driving habits are utterly suicidal .

    Related terms

    * suicidality * suicide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves