Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-injurious

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables: self--in-ju-ri-ous
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Causing injury or harm to oneself.

Example Sentences

"We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression."

Etymology

From self- + injurious.

Inflected Forms

more self-injurious (comparative) most self-injurious (superlative)

Derived Forms

SIB

Questions

What does self-injurious mean?: Causing injury or harm to oneself.
Where does self-injurious come from?: From self- + injurious.

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