phobic
adjective
informaluk/ˈfəʊ.bɪk/us/ˈfoʊ.bɪk/having astrongdislikeorhatredof something,especiallyin a way that isextremeor notreasonable:
Why are so manycompaniesphobicaboutemployingfatpeople?为什么有这么多公司害怕雇用胖人?
Not liking
- abhor
- abide
- abominate
- anti-American
- anti-British
- cup
- cut
- deplore
- despise
- detest
- disdain
- disdainful
- mind
- non-fan
- not besomeone'scup of teaidiom
- not go much onsomethingidiom
- not have a civil word to say aboutsomeoneidiom
- not know whatsomeonesees insomeone/somethingidiom
- stand
- thing
phobic
noun[C]
informaluk/ˈfəʊ.bɪk/us/ˈfoʊ.bɪk/someone who has astrongdislikeof something:
I wouldn'tdescribemyself as a phobic but I don't likeheights.
Spiders,snakes, anddogscan all bedangerous, it's just that the phobic'sfeargets out ofcontrol.
- Weather phobics canbecometrulypanic-stricken, withsymptomsincludingdizzinessandnausea.
- The phobicknowstheirreactionisillogicaland it's veryembarrassingto them.
- Only 15percentof phobicseverseektreatment.
Fear & phobias
- acrophobia
- aerophobia
- agoraphobia
- agoraphobic
- aquaphobia
- arachnophobia
- bogie
- catastrophize
- chill
- claustrophobia
- dread
- homophobia
- homophobic
- hydrophobia
- hydrophobic
- Islamophobia
- misophonia
- mortal
- scare
- willie