suicidally

adv

Etymology

From suicidal + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a suicidal fashion.

    • 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.
    • “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.
  2. In terms of or by means of suicide.

    • 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.
    • There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suicidally. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA