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traumatic
What does traumatic mean?
traumatic (adjective): psychologically painful.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use traumatic in a sentence?
- That must have been traumatic. (Tatoeba sentence #10231850 by Amastan, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce traumatic?
/tɹɔˈmætɪk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does traumatic come from?
From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to traumatic
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “traumatic” mean?
low or reduced in price
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being of use or service
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wide in extent or scope
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psychologically painful
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