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claustrophobic

claustrophobic adjective: suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

Adjective

claustrophobic (comparative more claustrophobic, superlative most claustrophobic)

  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.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013
  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...1994, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes

Noun

claustrophobic (plural claustrophobics)

  1. Someone with claustrophobia.

claustrophobic meaning in Bengali

claustrophobic in Bengali

বদ্ধস্থানভীতিগ্রস্ত

Forms of claustrophobic

Adjective
comparativemore claustrophobic
superlativemost claustrophobic
Noun
pluralclaustrophobics

Origin of claustrophobic

From claustrophobia + -ic.

Words formed from claustrophobic

Questions about claustrophobic

What does claustrophobic mean?
Claustrophobic means suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
What is claustrophobic in Bengali?
Claustrophobic in Bengali is বদ্ধস্থানভীতিগ্রস্ত. See Claustrophobic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is claustrophobic?
Claustrophobic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near claustrophobic in the dictionary

  1. claustrophobes
  2. claustrophobia
  3. claustrophobiac
  4. claustrophobiacs
  5. claustrophobias
  6. claustrophobic
  7. claustrophobically
  8. claustrophobics
  9. claustrum
  10. clausula
  11. clausulae

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