Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to do harm to oneself.
- adjective Marked by an impulse or tendency to harm or kill oneself.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to the destruction of one's self, or of itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That causes
injury to oneself orharm to one's interests.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dangerous to yourself or your interests
Etymologies
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Examples
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The earlier books, which have just been reissued by Picador in one paperback volume as "The Patrick Melrose Novels," can be read as the navigational charts of a mariner desperate not to end up in the wretched harbor from which he embarked on a voyage that has led in and out of heroin addiction, alcoholism, marital infidelity and a range of behaviors for which the term "self-destructive" is the mildest of euphemisms.
NYT > Home Page By FRANCINE PROSE 2012
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PARK CITY, Utah - If you watch "Californication," you know that Hank Moody is the definition of self-destructive.
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Forcing movements to the point of strain or pain is self-destructive, which is totally against the precept of Nonviolence, a basic ethic of Yoga practice.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Forcing movements to the point of strain or pain is self-destructive, which is totally against the precept of Nonviolence, a basic ethic of Yoga practice.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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A maverick, a man described as a self-destructive genius, who battled heroin addiction, endured turbulent relationships with his band members but whose fast living saw his candle burn out so young at just 44.
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For example, Lord Voldemort had his background as a motherless illegitimate child --- which doesn't really go anywhere near explaining his extreme evil and self-destructive tendency to kill people, especially Muggles, just for fun.
Why Villains Exist in Fiction nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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For example, Lord Voldemort had his background as a motherless illegitimate child --- which doesn't really go anywhere near explaining his extreme evil and self-destructive tendency to kill people, especially Muggles, just for fun.
Archive 2009-05-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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: Belgium's self-destructive politics the Belgium I know is a laid-back, relaxed place with a well-developed sense of humour about itself.
Belgium as seen by Charlemagne nwhyte 2010
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From that point, it took maybe 36 hours for me to return to a full-blown self-destructive pack-a-day habit.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 6: 36 pm there is something to be said for there being significant financial ramifications for high health care cost behavior (e.g. smoking, obesity) to reimburse the government for your self-destructive behavior the rest of us are going to have to pay for.
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