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Suicidal vs Suicidally - What's the difference?

suicidal | suicidally |

As an adjective suicidal

is pertaining to suicide.

As a noun suicidal

is someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves.

As an adverb suicidally is

in a suicidal fashion.

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

    • suicidally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a suicidal fashion.
  • * 1999 , Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (page 56)
    • My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat.
  • In terms of or by means of suicide.
  • * 1984 , Sharon Scholl, Death and the Humanities (page 154)
    • To accusations that her leap from her prison tower was suicidally motivated, she replies scornfully that anybody with any sense prefers to try for freedom instead of remaining in prison.
  • * 2007 , John H. Trestrail, III, Criminal Poisoning (page 63)
    • There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her.