traumatic
/tɹɔˈmætɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process.
Example Sentences
- "It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four."
- ""I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department[…]. "It was traumatic.""
- "traumatick Decoctions"
- "traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury"
- "Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE."
Etymology
From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹɔˈmætɪk/
- British English: /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
post-traumatic
post-traumatic stress disorder
traumatic acid
traumatic alopecia
traumatic amenorrhea
traumatic amputation
traumatic anesthesia