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traumatic
Universal Words
adjective
1 extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel upset and/or anxious:
a traumatic childhood / experience * Divorce can be traumatic for everyone involved.
2 [onlybeforenoun] (psychology or medical) connected with or caused by trauma:
traumatic amnesia
seealsoPOST-TRAUMATICSTRESSDISORDER
traumatically adverb
