- 1extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel upset and/or anxious a traumatic experience Divorce can be traumatic for everyone involved.
- 2[only before noun] (psychology or medical) connected with or caused by trauma traumatic amnesia see post-traumatic stress disorder
traumatic
adjectiveNAmE//trəˈmæt̮ɪk//, NAmE//trɔˈmæt̮ɪk//, NAmE//traʊˈmæt̮ɪk//
NAmE//trəˈmæt̮ɪkli//, NAmE//trɔˈmæt̮ɪkli//, NAmE//traʊˈmæt̮ɪkli//
adverbSee traumatic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: traumatic