traumatic
adjective /trɔːˈmætɪk/
/trəˈmætɪk/
- extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel upset and/or anxious
- a traumatic experience
- Divorce can be traumatic for everyone involved.
- a traumatic childhood
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- get
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- [only before noun] (psychology or medical) connected with or caused by trauma
- traumatic amnesia
Word Originmid 19th cent.: via late Latin from Greek traumatikos, from trauma ‘wound’.