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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pho•bic /ˈfoʊbɪk/USA pronunciation adj. - of or relating to phobia:He'd become phobic about walking across dark parking lots at night.
n. [countable] - a person with such a fear.
-phobic, suffix. - -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).
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pho•bic (fō′bik),USA pronunciation adj. - Psychiatryof or pertaining to a phobia or phobias.
n. - Psychiatrya person suffering from a phobia.
- phob(ia) + -ic, or by abstraction from adjectives ending in -phobic 1895–1900
- a combining form used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -phobe: acrophobic;
photophobic.
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