phobic

UK: /ˈfəʊbɪk/ US: /ˈfoʊbɪk/ ,(fō′bik)

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pho•bic /ˈfoʊbɪk/   adj. 

1. of or relating to phobia:
   He'd become phobic about walking across dark parking lots at night.

n. [countable]
2. a person with such a fear.

-phobic, suffix. 

1. -phobic is attached to roots and words to form adjectives or nouns meaning "(a person) having a continuous, irrational fear or hatred toward'' the object named in the root or preceding word:
   xeno- (= foreign) + -phobic → xenophobic (= (a person) having a fear or hatred of foreigners).

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pho•bic  (fō′bik), adj. 

1. Psychiatry of or pertaining to a phobia or phobias.

n. 

2. Psychiatry a person suffering from a phobia.

• phob(ia) + -ic, or by abstraction from adjectives ending in -phobic 1895–1900

-phobic, 

1. a combining form used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -phobe: acrophobic;
   photophobic.

• -phobe + -ic