| Main Entry: | suicidal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable to kill oneself |
Synonyms: |
dangerous, deadly, depressed, destructive, fatal, lethal |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing end of life |
Synonyms: |
baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
Antonyms: |
animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | despairing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset, despondent |
Synonyms: |
anxious, at end of one's rope, blue, brokenhearted, can't win, cynical, dejected, depressed, desperate, disconsolate, downcast, forlorn, frantic, grief-stricken, hopeless, in pain, in the dumps, in the pits, in the soup, inconsolable, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, no-win, not a prayer, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, shot down, strabilious, suicidal, sunk, weighed down, wretched |
Antonyms: |
confident, encouraged, expectant, hopeful |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, devastating |
Synonyms: |
annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive |
| Main Entry: | ruinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous, devastating |
Synonyms: |
annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, shattering, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful |
| Main Entry: | tumbledown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruinous |
Synonyms: |
annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, dilapidated, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, ramshackle, rundown, shattering, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful |