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traumatic
adjective as in frightful/frightening
Weak matches
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- dismaying
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- ghastly
- grabber
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hairy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconceivable
- intimidating
- lurid
- macabre
- menacing
- morbid
- ominous
- petrifying
- portentous
- repellent
- spooky
- terrible
- terrifying
- unnerving
- unspeakable
adjective as in harrowing
Example Sentences
"For all of us, as parents or students who have been through situations like this, it would have been extremely traumatic," he told reporters.
One adult working nearby was killed in the strike and nine others were wounded, one with serious burns and another a traumatic amputation of her leg.
Davis said the accusation was "a little unfair" and rejected the claim that "we somehow benefit from our users suffering the traumatic event of having their phone stolen".
June Bunyan, 37, who was originally from Arran, was discovered on 11 September with traumatic neck injuries.
The Colombian survivor arrived in his homeland "with a traumatic brain injury, sedated, medicated, and breathing with the help of a ventilator", according to Colombia's interior minister.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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