claustrophobicadj.
/ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪk/, /ˌklɒstrəˈfəʊbɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌklɔstrəˈfoʊbɪk/, /ˈˌklɑstrəˈfoʊbɪk/ a. Prone to or suffering from claustrophobia. Also absol. or as n.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears
hydrophobous1748
necrophobic1857
pantophobic1857
agoraphobic1878
claustrophobic1889
pantophobous1893
phobic1897
ailurophobic1905
claustrophobiac1934
scotophobic1936
phobiac1944
mycophobic1957
school-phobic1960
aquaphobic1968
ochlophobic1976
computer-phobic1983
arachniphobe1984
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears > person
hydrophobist1840
phobist1883
acrophobe1894
agoraphobe1894
agoraphobic1898
ailurophobe1905
claustrophobe1911
phobiac1911
phobic1911
arachnophobe1925
claustrophobiac1934
claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
necrophobe1973
computerphobe1974
aerophobic1978
computer-phobic1983
toxiphobiac-
1889 in Cent. Dict.
1932 E. Bowen To North xvi. 167 ‘Besides,’ she said, ‘I'm claustrophobic.’
1953 New Yorker 31 Jan. 61/1 The crowds were so enormous that it was all too easy for the claustrophobic to fall into an apposite mood.
1954 Harper's Aug. 16/3 Everybody felt claustrophobic and uneasy.
1965 D. S. Davis Pale Betrayer (1966) xvi. 127 No windows..a room not intended for claustrophobics.
b. Of a place, etc.: confined, restricting; inducing claustrophobia. Also transferred.
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the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious
narroweOE
straitc1290
unwidea1400
scanta1533
angust1540
roomless1548
pinched?1567
niggard1595
strict1598
straitened1602
pinching1607
incommodious1615
incapacious1635
over-strait1645
straiteninga1652
cramp1786
bottleneck1854
cramped1884
tight1937
claustrophobic1946
claustrophobe1954
1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes ii. 11 This is the last term for us Seniors, and everything is very grim and claustrophobic.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy viii. 213 It is violent and sexual, but all in a claustrophobic and shut-in way.
1959 G. Mitchell Man who grew Tomatoes xi. 141 I think we might all go into the lounge... It is unpleasantly claustrophobic in here.
Derivatives
ˌclaustroˈphobically adv. in a claustrophobic manner; so as to induce claustrophobia.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > irrational fears
claustrophobically1957
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vii. 188 The claustrophobically personal manner of some successful men crooners.
1961 John o' London's 28 Sept. 358/2 Suddenly it all becomes unbearably claustrophobically pointless.
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adj.1889