suicidal

as in depressed

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Adjective
  • Developers are taking an extended break from a slumping San Diego area office market beset by empty space, depressed demand and high construction costs.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Real wages remain depressed and economic growth has stalled.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The melancholic pop-rock of the title track showcases the group’s strong vocals and has already earned some long-overdue domestic success.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Tsypkin’s account of dramatic summer of gambling and deathbed prayers is accompanied by his own melancholic photographs of nondescript walls and windows, taken on a research trip to Leningrad.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Pauline Collins, the exuberant British actress who inspired women — and men, too — to do something to change their unhappy lives with her Oscar-nominated and Olivier- and Tony-winning performances in Shirley Valentine, has died.
    Lisa de los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That distaste didn’t hurt Spanberger and her ticket, because 18% of those unhappy voters backed her anyway.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Everyone's a little sad in The Holdovers, Alexander Payne's charmingly sour comedy about a student stuck at his New England boarding school over the holidays with only his grouchy professor (Paul Giamatti) and the school cook (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) for company.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The 25-year-old wide receiver is sad to see his teammates go, but trusts the vision of the New York front office.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • And yet, for all my disdain, there's a morbid lovableness to Pattinson's portrayal that manages to disarm the weary cynic that's grown with age.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But Clouzot’s movies are even more morbid and misanthropic than Alfred Hitchcock’s, especially Diabolique, his most famous film.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Johnson, Evans and Pascal – and while certainly thoughtful, the film's strengths are upended by a mood-murdering melancholy.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The day of the hearing, Vande Kolk climbed into his truck and headed home, feeling melancholy.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Additionally, Owens’ youngest child, Titus, who was just a toddler when his mother died, was confused, irritable and inconsolable in the weeks after her death, Dias shared.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Brian was inconsolable and cramped down on his hunkers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even at its most sorrowful, anti-authoritarian, and smart-alecky, Gunn’s work endorses a fundamentally promising vision of life.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Her sorrowful expression left many people in tears, and many shared their hopes for an adoption.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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