phobic
/ˈfəʊbɪk
/adjective
Having or involving an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something: she’s phobic about spiders treatment for phobic anxiety...
- The goal of treatment is to help the phobic person function effectively.
- He was phobic about migrants from the next-door country.
- Sometimes birds can be phobic about the smallest things.
noun
A person with an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something: a snake phobic...
- Slower and generally more expensive, rail travel is now just for phobics and romantics.
- The only 'problem' here is in the minds of the phobics, and the answer should be to educate them rather than preserve someone else's misery.
- I'll accept those accusations, but I'd rather be this way than be a bigoted phobic.
