-phobe


  1. a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia: Anglophobe.

Origin of -phobe

1
From Greek -phobos, adjectival derivative of phóbos “panic fear”
  • Also -phobiac.

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British Dictionary definitions for -phobe

-phobe

n combining form
  1. indicating a person or thing that fears or hates: Germanophobe; xenophobe

Origin of -phobe

1
from Greek -phobos fearing

Derived forms of -phobe

  • -phobic, adj combining form

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