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phobic

pho·bic
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [foh-bik]
    • /ˈfoʊ bɪk/
    • /ˈfəʊ.bɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [foh-bik]
    • /ˈfoʊ bɪk/

Definitions of phobic word

  • adjective phobic of or relating to a phobia or phobias. 1
  • noun phobic a person suffering from a phobia. 1
  • adjective phobic relating to irrational fear or aversion 1
  • noun phobic one with phobia 1
  • adjective phobic A phobic feeling or reaction results from or is related to a strong, irrational fear or hatred of something. 0
  • adjective phobic Someone who is phobic has a strong, irrational fear or hatred of something. 0

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Origin of phobic

First appearance:

before 1895
One of the 18% newest English words
1895-1900; phob(ia) + -ic, or by abstraction from adjectives ending in -phobic

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Parts of speech for Phobic

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

phobic popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for phobic

adj phobic

  • aflutter — in or into a nervous or excited state
  • fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.

adjective phobic

  • discomposed — Simple past tense and past participle of discompose.
  • disquieted — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
  • neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
  • rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.

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