traumatic C1 Topic:Health & Medicine US /tɹɔˈmætɪk/ UK /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/ See IPA manual Freq #10554 Meanings 1 adj Deeply shocking and emotionally painful. Losing his job was a traumatic experience for the whole family. 2 adj Relating to a serious physical injury or wound. He suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. Thesaurus ↔ Opposites non-traumaticnontraumaticuntraumatic Word family Derived forms atraumaticbarotraumaticbiotraumaticcalciotraumaticgeotraumaticmonotraumaticneurotraumaticperitraumaticphonotraumaticpolytraumaticpost-traumaticposttraumatic Common collocations traumatic epilepsy Adjective + noun Etymology AI details From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic. Topics Health & Medicine Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # traumatic **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /tɹɔˈmætɪk/ **IPA (UK):** /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/ **Frequency rank:** 10554 ## Meanings 1. Deeply shocking and emotionally painful. 2. Relating to a serious physical injury or wound. ## Examples - Losing his job was a traumatic experience for the whole family. - He suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. ## Antonyms - non-traumatic - nontraumatic - untraumatic ## Derived Forms - atraumatic - barotraumatic - biotraumatic - calciotraumatic - geotraumatic - monotraumatic - neurotraumatic - peritraumatic - phonotraumatic - polytraumatic - post-traumatic - posttraumatic ## Etymology From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic. ## AI Etymology Traumatic is from the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic. In present-day use, it can mean deeply shocking and emotionally painful, or relating to a serious physical injury or wound. Derived formations include atraumatic, barotraumatic, biotraumatic, calciotraumatic, geotraumatic. ## Topics - Health & Medicine - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown