Claustrophobic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone with claustrophobia.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

    "Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic."

  2. 2
    Cramped and confined, so as to induce claustrophobia.

    "...within the monstrous arrangements of dried flowers on the table-tops, against the Victorian clutter of that claustrophobic room..."

Adjective
  1. 1
    suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places wordnet
  2. 2
    uncomfortably closed or hemmed in wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
afraidconfined

Example

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"Did I tell you that I'm claustrophobic?"

Etymology

From claustrophobia + -ic.

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