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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traumatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a traumatic event (=very upsetting)
▪ He was forced to relive the traumatic events of his kidnap.
traumatic/harrowing (=one that is shocking and upsetting, and affects you for a long time)
▪ Having an operation can be a traumatic experience for a child.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ However, if the determined Mr Welch gets his way, building the boundary-less company could make the 1990s just as traumatic.
▪ When they break up, non-marital separations can be as traumatic as a divorce.
▪ Opposition is seen as traumatic, a frightening situation because it recalls the violence of Mecca before the triumph of the One.
▪ Few events in life are as traumatic as the death of a spouse.
less
▪ While the regime for patients undergoing sclerotherapy is more inconvenient, it is undoubtedly less traumatic.
▪ Gradual changes are much less traumatic than sudden changes.
▪ The parting was less traumatic than some, however.
▪ They say it makes the experience less painful for them and less traumatic for the baby.
▪ Then the volume of traffic built up and things got a little less traumatic.
more
▪ Massive volatility of income combined with total security of principle is, in the long term, more traumatic than the reverse.
▪ He seems to think that this is more traumatic for him.
▪ This has to be more traumatic than if we were slowly introduced to the idea.
▪ Being an artist's model was turning out to be somewhat more traumatic than she had anticipated.
▪ There are grounds however for believing that the experience can be more traumatic for women and girls.
▪ And sometimes they were replaced by a more traumatic memory.
▪ The reality was more traumatic than many have realized.
▪ If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic.
most
▪ To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis.
▪ Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period.
very
▪ The divorce was very traumatic, full of accusations, stamping of feet and pleading from Marie for me to come back.
▪ Firing some one is very traumatic, said Tony Rosenstein, an employment and trial lawyer.
▪ Gedge found the experience of sacking Shaun Charman very traumatic but he still had the resolution to see it through.
▪ This, she thought, would make it easier for them to cope with a very traumatic situation.
■ NOUN
event
▪ Is early weaning a traumatic event whose effects will last for life?
▪ They try not to worry excessively about the uncertainties in the future or to dwell on the traumatic events of the past.
▪ Admission For most people admission to hospital, whether planned or as an emergency, is a traumatic event.
▪ When did snow become this traumatic event that once brought only joy?
▪ Follow-up studies of people experiencing particularly traumatic events such as bereavement have also shown a high rate of associated depression and anxiety.
▪ As previously stated, the attack is often associated with an emotionally traumatic event.
▪ They ruled that officers were expected to cope with traumatic events in the line of duty.
experience
▪ Importantly, they may in fact be helping you come to terms with the traumatic experience.
▪ And, of course, some people may become inhibited in dealing with the world because of some traumatic experience.
▪ At the time it was a traumatic experience.
▪ Adults may develop the disorder after being involved in a traumatic experience such as war or a natural disaster.
▪ The negative reaction pushes for avoidance of the traumatic experience, and thus Amfortas is healed by the spear.
▪ For the housekeeper, such straight forward tasks as reading shopping lists or dashed off notes from her employers are traumatic experiences.
▪ Before moving out of Speaker's House on Friday, Weatherill had the traumatic experience of disposing of his trappings of office.
▪ On the run for a good cause Going to prison in unquestionably a traumatic experience.
stress
▪ She suffers from post-traumatic stress, which makes it impossible to work.
▪ Counselors will work with people who have post- traumatic stress disorder.
▪ The movement's struggle with authorities to help the victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and Agent Orange had undeniable significance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Learning to swim was the most traumatic experience of my childhood.
▪ Len's slow and painful death was traumatic for the entire family.
▪ My parents' divorce was very traumatic for me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period.
▪ For him, that means there is a place for everything, no matter how trivial or traumatic.
▪ He knew that in the wake of Steve Jobs's traumatic departure, a sense of play was missing in Cupertino.
▪ Many of these states have experienced traumatic nationality conflicts, and few of these conflicts have been permanently resolved.
▪ Nixon's forced resignation, in other words, was a deeply traumatic episode in the history of the United States.
▪ Susan, who had to endure a traumatic eye operation, seemed at first unable to learn colors and numbers.
▪ This was usually a person undergoing great emotional strain, such as a girl experiencing a particularly traumatic puberty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traumatic

Traumatic \Trau*mat"ic\, a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. ?, from ?, ?, a wound: cf. F. traumatique.] (Med.)

  1. Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.
    --Coxe.

  2. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
    --Wiseman.

  3. Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. -- n. A traumatic medicine.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
traumatic

1650s, from French traumatique and directly from Late Latin traumaticus, from Greek traumatikos "pertaining to a wound," from trauma (genitive traumatos; see trauma). Psychological sense is from 1889. Related: Traumatically.

Wiktionary
traumatic

Etymology 1 a. of, caused by, or causing trauma Etymology 2

n. (context dated medicine English) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

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WordNet
traumatic

  1. adj. of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body

  2. psychologically painful

  3. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: stabbing, wounding]

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Usage examples of "traumatic".

The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.

The Americans arrived anticipating, many of them, a traumatic confrontation with fanatical emperor worshippers.

Grinspoon told him the defendant was one of thousands of people who claim that marijuana is the best thing they can find for controlling the kind of painful spasms associated with quadriplegia, multiple sclerosis, and traumatic nerve injury.

All very regrettable, but only natural: Henry Senior, in his attempt to cure William, has inflicted on the household a series of traumatic shocks, and as a consequence all its servant blood has been drawn away from the peripheries to the beleaguered heart.

Quite possibly, this was her old traumatic paralysis, reinduced by shock.

The experience in Said Ababa had been bad, but nothing like the traumatic one she had just undergone.

And as with pre-Fall humans suffering serious injury or premature death, as Daeman once experienced upon being eaten by an allosaurus, Firmary birth was something so traumatic that it had to be blocked from memory.

Roosa divides the causes into traumatic, hemorrhagic, and inflammatory, and primary lesions of the labyrinth, exemplifying each by numerous instances.

The traumatic birth that damaged the brain of the disfigured man had impaired only a portion of his physical abilities, not the sensitive psychic overdevelopment that enabled his great power.

In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.

In the somnambulistic state, however, a subject is under no such influence and is either recapitu- lating or expressing behaviour of an earlier, deeply repressed traumatic experience.

Even if something unexpected or traumatic happened, why would he have taken a bus or hitchhiked when he could have driven?

Some of these Herlandist radicals seem to find my arrival more traumatic than that of the Enemy, so long ago.

I found that if we could develop a sensitivity in both parents and children to the influences of the Parent and Child in both, we could begin to work out the best ways to help these youngsters overcome the powerful, subversive not ok recordings made in their early traumatic months and years.

Moreover, especially when dealing with a traumatic experience, such as a horrible crime or accident or a rape or abuse as a child, there is a risk of being retraumatized by this procedure.