Phobic
adjective
Having a fear or dislike of something, often irrational.
She is claustrophobic, she is scared of small, enclosed spaces.
adjective
Relates to having a phobia, a type of anxiety disorder which causes people to experience irrational fear.
A phobic person often avoids certain situations and places that trigger his fear.
Often appears as...
- phobic individual
- phobic response
Usage tips
Medical
suffix
Used to form adjectives indicating a strong dislike or fear of a particular thing or group.
He is homophobic. He has an irrational fear of or dislike towards homosexuality or homosexuals.
Often appears as...
- homophobic
- xenophobic
adjective
Having a fear or dislike of something, often irrational.
She is claustrophobic, she is scared of small, enclosed spaces.
adjective
Relates to having a phobia, a type of anxiety disorder which causes people to experience irrational fear.
A phobic person often avoids certain situations and places that trigger his fear.
Often appears as...
- phobic individual
- phobic response
Usage tips
Medical
suffix
Used to form adjectives indicating a strong dislike or fear of a particular thing or group.
He is homophobic. He has an irrational fear of or dislike towards homosexuality or homosexuals.
Often appears as...
- homophobic
- xenophobic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Phobic often conveys negative and strong emotions towards something.
He becomes phobic when he sees spiders.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrational Aspect
The fear or dislike is typically excessive and unreasonable.
Even a picture of a snake makes her phobic.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoidance Behavior
Someone phobic usually tries to avoid the feared subject.
As a phobic, he won't attend events in high-rise buildings.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Phobic often conveys negative and strong emotions towards something.
He becomes phobic when he sees spiders.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrational Aspect
The fear or dislike is typically excessive and unreasonable.
Even a picture of a snake makes her phobic.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoidance Behavior
Someone phobic usually tries to avoid the feared subject.
As a phobic, he won't attend events in high-rise buildings.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Phobic often conveys negative and strong emotions towards something.
He becomes phobic when he sees spiders.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrational Aspect
The fear or dislike is typically excessive and unreasonable.
Even a picture of a snake makes her phobic.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoidance Behavior
Someone phobic usually tries to avoid the feared subject.
As a phobic, he won't attend events in high-rise buildings.
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Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
or rain and they've got to get through water they most certainly will do that they're not going to just you know avoid it and try and go around a river they will go over and through the rocks and all kinds of things if they have to so they not completely phobic of water but they're a big problem for squirrels and birds and those kind of things like I said they spend a lot more time in the
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Militant atheism PIPE...
they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep, mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand. "Non-theist" will do for all that, yet unlike "atheist," it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
or rain and they've got to get through water they most certainly will do that they're not going to just you know avoid it and try and go around a river they will go over and through the rocks and all kinds of things if they have to so they not completely phobic of water but they're a big problem for squirrels and birds and those kind of things like I said they spend a lot more time in the
Video examples
Militant atheism PIPE...
they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep, mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand. "Non-theist" will do for all that, yet unlike "atheist," it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses.
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Quote examples
Debra Messing
American Actress
I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
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Marilyn vos Savant
American Writer
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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John Bercow
British Politician
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor.
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Dane Cook
American Comedian
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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David Grann
American Journalist
I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
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Spalding Gray
American Actor
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
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Joanne Harris
British Author
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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Judy Blume
American Author
I'm phobic about thunderstorms.
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Debra Messing
American Actress
I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
Quote examples
Marilyn vos Savant
American Writer
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Quote examples
John Bercow
British Politician
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
Quote examples
Guy Fieri
American Businessman
People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor.
Quote examples
Dane Cook
American Comedian
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
Quote examples
David Grann
American Journalist
I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.
Quote examples
Martin Scorsese
American Director
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
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Spalding Gray
American Actor
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
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Joanne Harris
British Author
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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Judy Blume
American Author
I'm phobic about thunderstorms.
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