Traumatic (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Psychologically painful; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Witnessing a violent crime can be a traumatic experience for many people.
- The loss of her mother at a young age had a traumatic impact on her mental health.
- For some veterans, the memories of war can be traumatic and difficult to overcome.
- The news of the natural disaster was traumatic for the families who lost their homes.
- The bullying she experienced in school had a traumatic effect on her self-esteem.
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Meaning 2
Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The accident victim required emergency surgery for a traumatic head injury that had caused significant blood loss and swelling.
- Doctors had to reattach the severed limb due to the traumatic amputation from the lawnmower accident.
- He spent weeks in rehabilitation after the traumatic spinal cord injury that had left him paralyzed from the waist down.
- Medical personnel had to move carefully around the scene of the crash to avoid exacerbating the driver's traumatic internal injuries.
- Rescue workers administered immediate medical care for the hikers' traumatic wounds inflicted by the sudden landslide.