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Definition of traumatic in English: traumaticadjective traʊˈmatɪktrɔːˈmatɪk 1Deeply disturbing or distressing. she was going through a traumatic divorce Example sentencesExamples - Separation and divorce are traumatic experiences for couples, their children and their extended families.
- We can only imagine this was indeed a most traumatic and horrifying discovery for the boy.
- It was a deeply traumatic experience anticipating a police dog going berserk in the enclosed space that is Streatham Hill ticket office.
- His lack of health was incredibly disturbing and traumatic for all of us, especially a young boy who idolised him.
- It was the the most painful and traumatic thing I have ever experienced but I am glad I decided to wait it out and see if I could do it naturally.
- For families of victims it is also deeply traumatic watching their loved ones struggle for breath.
- In Miller's case, the event was particularly traumatic, an awful bolt from the blue.
- It was a traumatic episode with a distressing cliffhanger.
- While still agonizing over this traumatic separation, he is approached by a white man who offers him a picayune.
- Stop reading books about making things work with your wife and read a few about how to make the divorce less traumatic for them.
- This is going to be traumatic and painful and I want to shield myself from it as much as possible.
- And while the trend in the county was less devastating it was nonetheless traumatic.
- These are people that are next to you in a traumatic incident and that trust and support and respect has to be there.
- His daughter, now a healthy toddler, had open-heart surgery when she was a few weeks old, a time he remembers as traumatic and upsetting.
- For many, the most traumatic and painful part of the disorder is the constant obsession with food and weight.
- It's as painful and traumatic as having a metal probe stuck under your fingernail to pull if off.
- The loss of innocence is not only inevitable, but it is also both traumatic and devastating.
- Kids who have gone through a traumatic divorce or the loss of a loved one may already be emotionally at risk.
- Let me tell you that throat cancer is not a pretty or a dignified way to go: it is humiliating and painful and traumatic for their families who are left to pick up the pieces.
- Divorce is traumatic enough without having to wait two years to get your case heard and sort out your life in a courthouse hall.
Synonyms disturbing, shocking, distressing, disquieting, upsetting, damaging, scarring, injurious, harmful, hurtful, painful, agonizing, awful, chilling, alarming, devastating, harrowing, excruciating, horrifying, terrifying informal mind-blowing stressful, demanding, trying, taxing, terrible, bad, unpleasant, disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, vexatious - 1.1 Relating to or causing psychological trauma.
she is remembering some deeply traumatic incident in her past Example sentencesExamples - Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
- In fact, PTSD can occur in individuals who have been exposed indirectly to a traumatic stressor.
- Finally, traumatic stress seems to have had an impact on the prevalence of general psychopathology as well.
- In addition, amnesia for traumatic events may occur in rare cases.
- Psychological reactions to traumatic events also affect sexual functioning.
2Medicine
Relating to or denoting physical injury. Example sentencesExamples - About 600-700 people sustain acute traumatic injuries to the spinal cord in the United Kingdom each year.
- Researchers know that one common thread in a body's reaction to a traumatic injury is inflammation.
- All pregnant women with traumatic injury should be assessed formally in a medical setting.
- We also asked the nurse to name one ward providing observation for patients with traumatic brain injuries, where we repeated the interview.
- This is the cause of chronic swelling that sometimes occurs after surgery or a traumatic injury to a limb.
Derivatives adverb It's like being traumatically frightened by a clown. Example sentencesExamples - No country in the whole of the 20th century, even one suffering a defeat in wartime, has been forced to suffer so traumatically from peacetime sanctions.
- Since he had only recently, and traumatically, been released on to the dating market, I couldn't give this delusion the duffing up it deserved; but honestly, cooking alone does not earn brownie points from a woman.
- He, too, traumatically abandons the young man.
- And I can't overlook how high-end consumption promises to do exactly what critics of the stuff have always yearned for, namely, to bring us together, often traumatically.
Origin Mid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek traumatikos, from trauma (see trauma). Rhymes achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic Definition of traumatic in US English: traumaticadjective 1Emotionally disturbing or distressing. she was going through a traumatic divorce Example sentencesExamples - Separation and divorce are traumatic experiences for couples, their children and their extended families.
- The loss of innocence is not only inevitable, but it is also both traumatic and devastating.
- In Miller's case, the event was particularly traumatic, an awful bolt from the blue.
- While still agonizing over this traumatic separation, he is approached by a white man who offers him a picayune.
- This is going to be traumatic and painful and I want to shield myself from it as much as possible.
- Divorce is traumatic enough without having to wait two years to get your case heard and sort out your life in a courthouse hall.
- Stop reading books about making things work with your wife and read a few about how to make the divorce less traumatic for them.
- These are people that are next to you in a traumatic incident and that trust and support and respect has to be there.
- For many, the most traumatic and painful part of the disorder is the constant obsession with food and weight.
- His daughter, now a healthy toddler, had open-heart surgery when she was a few weeks old, a time he remembers as traumatic and upsetting.
- And while the trend in the county was less devastating it was nonetheless traumatic.
- We can only imagine this was indeed a most traumatic and horrifying discovery for the boy.
- His lack of health was incredibly disturbing and traumatic for all of us, especially a young boy who idolised him.
- Let me tell you that throat cancer is not a pretty or a dignified way to go: it is humiliating and painful and traumatic for their families who are left to pick up the pieces.
- It was a deeply traumatic experience anticipating a police dog going berserk in the enclosed space that is Streatham Hill ticket office.
- Kids who have gone through a traumatic divorce or the loss of a loved one may already be emotionally at risk.
- It was the the most painful and traumatic thing I have ever experienced but I am glad I decided to wait it out and see if I could do it naturally.
- It was a traumatic episode with a distressing cliffhanger.
- It's as painful and traumatic as having a metal probe stuck under your fingernail to pull if off.
- For families of victims it is also deeply traumatic watching their loved ones struggle for breath.
Synonyms disturbing, shocking, distressing, disquieting, upsetting, damaging, scarring, injurious, harmful, hurtful, painful, agonizing, awful, chilling, alarming, devastating, harrowing, excruciating, horrifying, terrifying stressful, demanding, trying, taxing, terrible, bad, unpleasant, disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, vexatious - 1.1 Relating to or causing psychological trauma.
Example sentencesExamples - In addition, amnesia for traumatic events may occur in rare cases.
- In fact, PTSD can occur in individuals who have been exposed indirectly to a traumatic stressor.
- Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
- Psychological reactions to traumatic events also affect sexual functioning.
- Finally, traumatic stress seems to have had an impact on the prevalence of general psychopathology as well.
- 1.2Medicine Relating to or denoting physical injury.
Example sentencesExamples - About 600-700 people sustain acute traumatic injuries to the spinal cord in the United Kingdom each year.
- This is the cause of chronic swelling that sometimes occurs after surgery or a traumatic injury to a limb.
- We also asked the nurse to name one ward providing observation for patients with traumatic brain injuries, where we repeated the interview.
- All pregnant women with traumatic injury should be assessed formally in a medical setting.
- Researchers know that one common thread in a body's reaction to a traumatic injury is inflammation.
Origin Mid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek traumatikos, from trauma (see trauma). |