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

/ ˈfəʊbɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or arising from a phobia

noun

1. a person suffering from a phobia

Other Words From

• non·pho·bic adjective

Word 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

-phobe + -ic

Example Sentences

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.

From National Geographic

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Washington Post