Cruel
Traumatic
Traumatic adjective - Psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";.
Cruel and traumatic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Traumatic".
Nearby Words: trauma, traumatize
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
Both words in one sentence
- The trio of children - who are younger than usual in this kind of show - are put through the wringer in many ways, unusually cruel and traumatic.
- Secretly, however, there is a fourth thing that they share: no matter how traumatic their history, how cruel they've been to each other or how complicated the politics of the British Isles may be, they will always, always be a family.
- Because of this, the character was sent to away and grew up isolated and lonely, with the few neighbors acting cruel — to say nothing of the character's mother showing nothing but hatred for them, all the way until her traumatic death.
Source: Bastard Angst
Cite this Source
Traumatic and Cruel. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/traumatic
Cruel & Traumatic. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/traumatic>.
Traumatic or Cruel. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/traumatic.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "cruel" and "traumatic" have occurred on timeline