traumatically
- adverb
- /trɔːˈmætɪkli/
- While in Paris, Mohamedi became engaged to a Pakistani student, but when the relationship broke up traumatically, she sought refuge with her father in Bahrain.
Examples
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Yeah, well, because yours ended very traumatically, You know, your love was trying to save you.
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Thus, there is always a market for the evils of moralizing repression because there is a large base of people who saw, traumatically, firsthand, and pervasively, what their parents did to them.
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After the accident, she dealt with her memories traumatically for many years, often reliving the painful moments.
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The children were traumatically affected by the sudden loss of their home during the storm.
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He found it difficult to trust others after being traumatically betrayed by his closest friend.
Synonyms
In a way that is very shocking or frightening
In a way that makes people feel worried or unhappy
In a way that makes people feel very sad
In a way that feels very painful or shocking
In a way that makes people feel great shock or deep sadness
In a way that causes great fear or pain
In a way that causes strong emotional pain
Antonyms
How Traumatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Traumatically comes from trauma, meaning 'wound', and a helpful image is a wound to the feelings as well as the body; that's why traumatically often describes things that cause deep emotional harm.