Phobian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An inhabitant of Phobos.
"In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet."
- 2 A member of Accra Hearts of Oak S.C., Ghana's premier football club.
"To mark the end of Relations Week a fun run over 8 km was held at the Phobians Athletics Club."
- 3 One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.
"Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion."
- 1 Pertaining to Phobos.
"If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a height over one and one-tenth miles."
Synonyms
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More examples"If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a height over one and one-tenth miles."
Etymology
From Phobos + -ian.
From phobia + -n.
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