claustrophobic

claustrophobic

English

Etymology

claustrophobia +‎ -ic

Adjective

claustrophobic (comparative more claustrophobic, superlative most claustrophobic)

1. (psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎:

     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. Cramped and confined, so as to induce claustrophobia.
   • 1994, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes

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

Translations

Suffering from claustrophobia

Catalan: claustrofòbic Finnish: klaustrofobinen, ahtaanpaikankammoinen French: claustrophobe (fr) German: klaustrophobisch Italian: claustrofobo (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: klaustrofobisk Nynorsk: klaustrofobisk

Portuguese: claustrofóbico Russian: клаустрофо́бный (klaustrofóbnyj) Spanish: claustrofóbico Turkish: klauztrofobik, klauztrofobiya

Cramped and confined

Finnish: klaustrofobinen

Italian: claustrofobo (it)

Noun

claustrophobic (plural claustrophobics)

1. Someone with claustrophobia

See also

• claustrophobia