Traumatic is most often followed by for when describing emotional impact on a person.
Use traumatic for to describe a painful experience affecting someone. Other prepositions such as in, at, or of usually belong to the wider sentence rather than forming a fixed pattern with traumatic. Traumatic to is uncommon in current English.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use traumatic for to show who is emotionally affected by an event.
In usually introduces the situation where something traumatic happened.
At is not a fixed complement after traumatic but may introduce time or place.
Of does not normally follow traumatic directly as a standard adjective pattern.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
For is the natural choice for emotional impact on people.
✕ The experience was traumatic to the children. ✓ The experience was traumatic for the children.In often describes where or when the trauma happened, not a fixed adjective pattern.
✕ The accident was traumatic in him. ✓ The accident was traumatic for him.Of usually connects to another noun, not directly to traumatic.
✕ The event was traumatic of the family. ✓ The event was traumatic for the family.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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It appears occasionally, but traumatic for is more natural and widely accepted.
Yes. In medicine, traumatic can refer to injury caused by physical force.
Those prepositions usually introduce time, place, or context rather than forming a fixed phrase with traumatic.
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