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adj frightening

adjective. scary, shocking

adjective. dangerous, frightening

1650s, from Late Latin traumaticus, from Greek traumatikos "pertaining to a wound," from trauma (see trauma).

Megaloblasts on the contrary are never found in traumatic anæmias.

It is also suitable for cases of traumatic and paralytic origin.

This way at least the loss of his wife was not as traumatic as it might have been.

In other words, when she couldn't communicate, she went into this traumatic shock.

The traumatic form is excessively obstinate and intractable.

Could this vanishing be one of the effects of traumatic neurasthenia?

Didn't the doctor say what I'd got was traumatic neurasthenia?

Traumatic neurasthenia had nothing to do with Eve's disappearance!

He considers ringbone as articular, periarticular, rachitic and traumatic.

Death is so traumatic and final that it reverberates back along the time line.