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phobic

1

[ foh-bik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a phobia or phobias.


noun

  1. a person with a phobia.

-phobic

2
  1. a combining form used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -phobe:

    acrophobic; photophobic.

phobic

/ ˈəʊɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or arising from a phobia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person suffering from a phobia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of phobic1

First recorded in 1895–1900; phob(ia) + -ic, or by abstraction from adjectives ending in -phobic

Origin of phobic2

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With hundreds of years of baseless myth to supply us, it’s no wonder as many as six percent of people are phobic of arachnids.

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As for not noticing someone’s phobic tendencies, remember: Having to get along to get by is a powerful incentive to keep our hostilities, our “stuff,” tucked away.

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Croft: There’s still some resistance from editors of a certain generation — to translation itself, to properly crediting and remunerating the translator — but I think people are less phobic than they once might have been.

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“They are now marketing Botox to people in their 20s, and if you get people to be phobic about aging when they’re young, you have an ever-replenishing market for your products.”

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In this early project, Goodman described himself as commitment phobic while Walsh purported to fall in love perhaps too easily.

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