phobic
11
6.7
- adjective
- /ˈfoʊbɪk/
- Specialized
- Many people are phobic when facing large crowds, feeling anxious and trapped.
- phobic anxiety
- phobic object
- phobic situation
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Watch on YouTubeAnd if you're fat phobic and you're plus size, shame on you.
- And if you're fat phobic and you're plus size, shame on you.
- But you can't comment nowadays on anything like that without being called phobic.
- But then the narcissistic person has to find a way to mask the fear that a phobic situation would bring out.
- I got to get this film done and get out of my phobic vortex about dealing with the truth and get this thing done.
- So really it was quite a logical, you know, transition that this one fear, this one phobic response had translated into mud.
- Don't be fat phobic, that too but some people are not always meant to be in your life.
- They have all sorts of secondary comorbid issues that they're, they're sort of socially phobic, they've got eating disorders, they may be depressed.
- Now you might be surprised, but the facts of the Shank case bear no resemblance to a crowded theater full of fire phobic patrons.
- So you can be phobic, you can be fearful, and counterphobic is when you actually do the things that frighten you the most.
- But I think we're in a we're in an almost phobic zone where it's, you know, it's things are segregated in ways I don't think are necessarily that healthy.
- But like I said, with comedy, it's not racist or phobic if you question everything.
- You're not you're you're not Christianity of phobic.
- It's just if you don't agree with me, you're ex phobic, you're this, you're that, you're a bigger, you're you're misogynistic, you're whatever.
Examples
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If I don't keep it up, then it is really easy to become socially phobic and withdrawn.
Academic text (2010) -
A phobic situation, broadly speaking, can be avoided, but a phobic object can turn up unexpectedly.
Academic text (1992) -
You still phobic of water?
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Truth is, I was always kind of phobic.
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- I'm a little phobic, okay?
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I'm a little phobic of tables in the back.
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Perhaps the most appropriate way to distinguish between the truant and school-phobic child is to look at their behavior.
Academic text (1993) -
She's phobic about medication.
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He's phobic about flying and avoids airplanes at all costs.
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After his bad experience with dogs, he became phobic of them and couldn't approach any.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Feeling fear or worry about something
442
1.0
Feeling afraid of things like the dark or loud noises and wanting to avoid them
369
2.1
Feeling very afraid because you think something bad will happen
343
1.0
Being afraid because something seems dangerous
115
1.3
Feeling afraid or nervous and easily frightened
33
5.0
Feeling worried that something bad will happen
5
8.6
Having a strong fear of open or public places and often avoiding them
1
8.9
Feeling afraid when you are high up
1
9.0
Being very afraid of water and avoiding it
1
9.9
Has a strong fear of dirt and germs
1
9.8
Feeling very afraid of water, for example pools or the sea
1
9.1
Feeling afraid of flying in planes or of being high in the air
Very afraid of physical pain
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.5
An extreme, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation that affects daily life
- Archaic
1
9.4
A strong, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation that causes great worry
How Fearful
4
6.3
369
2.1
- Specialized
11
6.7
∞
1.0
92
3.2
680
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
phobic = phobia (transparent) = phob + ic
Formed from the noun 'phobia' with the adjectival suffix '-ic', meaning 'relating to or suffering from a phobia'.
Etymology
Phobic comes from the Greek word phobos, which means 'fear', and you can see the same root in phobia. So, phobic describes someone with a strong, often unreasonable fear of something.