Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subsuicidal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-sui-ci-dal
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour

Example Sentences

"The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena."
"Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]"

Etymology

From sub- + suicidal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Questions

What does subsuicidal mean?: self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour
Where does subsuicidal come from?: From sub- + suicidal.

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