self-destructive

Speech parts

1. self-destructive - Adjective

2. self-destructive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

self destructive

Synonyms

suicidal dangerous fatal devastating destructive depressed disastrous deadly lethal subversive reckless ruining kamikaze murderous perilous
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Antonyms

safe beneficial helpful confident sensible harmless
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Examples

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. Siobhan Fahey

You'll say I'm self-destructive - I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy. And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say. Alicia Witt

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. Richard Russo

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. Thom Gunn

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning. Andrew Tobias

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? George Stephanopoulos

Close letter words and terms

self-destroying self-destruct self-destruction self-destructive behavior self-destructive process self-destructively