claustrophobic
/klɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪk
/adjective
1(Of a person) suffering from claustrophobia: crowds always made him feel claustrophobic...
- I had never been a claustrophobic person, but I believe that on that evening I was truly experiencing the classic symptoms.
- He does have panic attacks, which, if you are claustrophobic, is tough to watch.
- A claustrophobic person would definitely have died here, I thought.
1.1(Of a place or situation) inducing claustrophobia: the claustrophobic interior of the cruiser...
- The geography is much bigger, but it allowed me to juxtapose this massive Alaskan landscape with this very claustrophobic situation.
- Suddenly, it seemed like the grungiest, most claustrophobic place on earth.
- Usually dark, damp and stained, with imagined muggers lurking in the shadows, they are claustrophobic places to escape from as fast as possible.
noun
A person who suffers from claustrophobia: tall claustrophobics won’t like the hotel’s narrow passageways...
- The hundred thousand or so claustrophobics banged their fists on the metallic walls while crying out for help, and a wall slid open from left to right, exposing some sort of movie screen.
- If any of you have seen an MRI tube, they tend to be small and cramped, difficult for claustrophobics to handle, and a tight enough squeeze for one person, let alone two.
- The few that decided to leave were probably some token claustrophobics.
Derivatives
claustrophobically
- Add to this a painful lack of female characters, and one gets a film that is claustrophobically obsessed with the lessons that all these obviously tragic male figures have to teach.
- Throughout the film's second hour, the main part of the cast is holed up claustrophobically in the New York Public Library, where the only destructive pleasure available is book-burning.
- But for a summer or two, there was a burst of musical energy, a refreshing blast of oxygen zooming through the introspective world that ‘rock music’ had claustrophobically induced.
Rhymes
- percolate
- percolating filter
- percolation
- percolation test
- percolative
- percolator
- percomorph
- percontation
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- percophid
- perc test
- per curiam
- percurrent
- percuss
- percussion
- percussional
- percussion blow
- percussion cap
- percussion drill
- percussion figure
- percussion gun
- percussion gun-lock
- percussion hammer
- intellectualistic
- intellectuality