different between suicidal vs autocide

English

Etymology

suicide +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u???sa?dl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su??sa?dl?/
• Rhymes: -a?d?l
• Hyphenation: su?i?ci?dal

Adjective

suicidal (comparative more suicidal, superlative most suicidal)

1. Pertaining to suicide.

2. (of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
3. (informal, hyperbolic) Extremely reckless.

Related terms

• suicidality
• suicide

Translations

Noun

suicidal (plural suicidals)

1. someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves

Translations

Anagrams

• clausiid

English

Etymology 1

auto- +? -cide

Noun

autocide (countable and uncountable, plural autocides)

1. (agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
2. (bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
3. (obsolete, rare) A suicidal person.

Etymology 2

auto +? -cide; see auto (“automobile”).

Noun

autocide (countable and uncountable, plural autocides)

1. An act of suicide committed by crashing a car.
2. An act of killing someone with an automobile.

Anagrams

• ecoaudit