🩹 Permanent marks 🧠 Lasting trauma 🌄 Surface damage 💔 Causing lasting harm 💔 Causing damage

scarring

5.8

Causing long-lasting physical or emotional harm

adjective
/ˈskɑːrɪŋ/

: traumático

Years of bullying had a lasting scarring effect on his self-esteem and confidence.

Examples

Without further action, we risk a longer, more painful recession now and longer term scarring of the economy later.
I'm going to use this for under my eyes and probably to spot conceal a little bit too because I want to see if we can cover the scarring and stuff smells good.
Like it's dry and then it's oily and then it's spotty and then it's clear and then it's scarring and then it's blemish free.
His harsh words left a deep emotional scarring that he struggled to overcome for years.
The severe car accident resulted in significant scarring that would affect her for the rest of her life.

Synonyms

traumatic

vsscarring

154 6.3

Causing deep emotional pain and lasting fear after a very bad event

implies lasting damage or harm rather than only severe upset

wounding

vsscarring

6.3

Causing emotional pain or hurt

causes long lasting harm rather than only immediate injury

Antonyms

repair

352 2.3

Work done to fix something that is broken

healing

2.6

That helps the body or mind become healthy again

How Damaging

catastrophic

144 7.0

devastating

224 5.1

scarring

5.8

damaging

80 3.1

harmful

161 2.6

harmless

231 1.0

Surface Forms

scarring positive

Morphology

scarring = scar (transparent) = scar + ing

Formed from the verb 'scar' with the productive adjectival participle '-ing'; meaning 'causing lasting damage' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Scarring comes from the old word scar, which meant 'cut' or 'mark'. So scarring as an adjective describes something that leaves a lasting, often painful, mark on a person or their memories.