Synonyms for trauma

Most common

injury · insult · wound · lesion · hurt

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Any injury to the body of a living thing.

   Near-synonyms: insult (contextually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:injury

2. n. 2

   Any injury to the body of a living thing. Serious injury, resulting from predation, violence, an accident such as a fall, a vehicle crash, etc.

   We're not talking about paper cuts or sprains here — we're talking about trauma.

3. n. 3

   An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

   What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.

Related words

Word family

traumacore traumagenic traumatize traumatology

Phrases

trauma centre suspension trauma trauma shears trauma scissors

Forms

Plural

traumas → injuries, insults, wounds, lesions…

Example sentences

• injury An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
• insult An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
• wound He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
• lesion Tom suffers from a skin lesion on his back.
• hurt I don't want to hurt Tom, but I will if I have to.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

hurt¹, harm¹

5 letters

wound¹

6 letters

injury³, insult², lesion²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (injury³ = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français

traumatisme

Italiano

trauma