traumatic

 
Pronunciation: /trɔːˈmatɪk, traʊ-/

adjective

  • 1deeply disturbing or distressing: she was going through a traumatic divorce
  • relating to or causing psychological trauma: she is remembering some deeply traumatic incident in her past
  • 2 Medicine relating to or denoting physical injury.

Derivatives

traumatically

adverb

Origin:

mid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek traumatikos, from trauma (see trauma)