traumatic
/tɹɔːˈmætɪk/US/tɹɔˈmætɪk/
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traumatic adjective: of, caused by, or causing trauma.
Adjective
traumatic (comparative more traumatic, superlative most traumatic)
- Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
- It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII
- "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department[…]. "It was traumatic."2011 September 18, Don Thompson, Ken Ritter, Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact, Associated Press
- Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
- Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
- traumatick Decoctions1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises
- Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process.
- traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury
- Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN
Noun
traumatic (plural traumatics)
traumatic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Nepali
traumatic in Hindi
- traumatic, damaging
- आघातपूर्ण āghātpūrṇ
traumatic in Tamil
- காயத்துக்குரிய, காயப்பருத்தும்
traumatic in Malayalam
- shocking, painful, disturbing
- വെെകാരികാഘാതമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, മാനസികാഘാതമേല്പിക്കുന്ന, ദീർഘകാല പ്രത്യാഘാതങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, തകർക്കുന്ന, നശിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന
traumatic in Nepali
- आघातजनक, आघातात्मक
More languagesFewer languages
- traumatic in Indonesian
- traumatis, traumatik
- traumatic in Vietnamese
- gây chấn thương, gây sang chấn
Examples of traumatic in a sentence
- He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.
- After enduring traumatic experiences, many people are likely to remember every second of them.
- A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
Antonyms of traumatic
Forms of traumatic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more traumatic |
| superlative | most traumatic |
| Noun | |
| plural | traumatics |
Origin of traumatic
From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.
From the Latin [medicāmentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.
Words formed from traumatic
- atraumatic
- barotraumatic
- biotraumatic
- calciotraumatic
- chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- geotraumatic
- monotraumatic
- neurotraumatic
- peritraumatic
- phonotraumatic
- polytraumatic
- post-traumatic
- posttraumatic
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- pretraumatic
- psychotraumatic
- traumatic acid
- traumatically
- traumatic alopecia
- traumatic amenorrhea
- traumatic amputation
- traumatic anesthesia
- traumatic arrest
- traumatic asphyxia
- traumatic brain injury
- traumaticin
- traumatic insemination
- traumatic withdrawal syndrome
Phrases with traumatic
Questions about traumatic
- What does traumatic mean?
- Traumatic means of, caused by, or causing trauma.
- What is traumatic in Hindi?
- Traumatic in Hindi is आघातपूर्ण (āghātpūrṇ). See Traumatic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is traumatic?
- Traumatic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce traumatic?
- Traumatic is pronounced /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/ (UK).
Words near traumatic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: traumatic (page history and authors); आघातपूर्ण (Hindi) (page history and authors); traumatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); traumatic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); traumatic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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