suicidal

as in depressed

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Adjective
  • Trump’s high-end real estate ambitions with GOP connections Gen Z employees are stressed, depressed, and burnt out: Study Netflix keeps raising prices.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The study also reveals that 46 percent of Gen Z felt stressed (compared to the 35 percent employee average), 35 percent felt depressed (compared to 20 percent average), 44 percent felt burned out (compared to 34 percent), and 30 percent felt isolated (compared to 22 percent).
    Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Open on a tidy suburban street rendered melancholic by snowfall.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The synthesizers are sparse, the bass lines are minimal, the drums are somehow loose and sturdy at once, while the energy shifts from melancholic to serious to hypnotic to playful in the span of an hour.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Ratings declined, Lynch was unhappy, and the show was canceled.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Saquon Barkley is an unstoppable force, the defense is resurgent under Vic Fangio, the chatter about an unhappy A.J. Brown has mostly died down.
    Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But nothing in life is sadder than a reality television person who doesn't know when to retire.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Air France regrets this sad event and expresses its sincere condolences.
    Michael D. Carroll AND Theo Burman, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The affable Liverpudlians inspired morbid theories among fans as their hair grew longer and their songs stranger.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • If nothing else, this eighth installment will offer yet another chance to see Cruise nearly obliterate his aging but somehow ageless physique performing some insanely dangerous new stunt — a morbid spectacle that, like his famous mug, never grows old.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps there’s something melancholy but appealing about the idea of a passionate romance that speeds up time, leaving one person with only difficult but beautiful memories, instead of the banalities of daily life that accompany a long partnership.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The melancholy tune surges from No. 62 to No. 45, nearly entering the top 40 for the very first time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • No wonder Embiid was crying and inconsolable afterwards.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Sterling is inconsolable and angry at Jeffrey for his fear of living.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Predictably, the fruit began to bleed red juice into the snow, creating crimson red rings around the snowman's eyes, giving him a sorrowful look.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Landman Besides the sheer sorrowful swagger and script quality of Landman, timing has proved almost everything for the Billy Bob Thornton star vehicle from Taylor Sheridan.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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