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Phobic is not the name of the fear itself — that name is . Phobic talks about the person or the quality. If you are phobic about heights, you have that strong, not-reasonable fear. As a noun, a phobic is a person who has a . You will also meet it stuck on the end of other words: claustrophobic, xenophobic. In careful talk it stays close to real fear; in loose talk people say they are “phobic” about something they only prefer to avoid. It can sound a little like hospital language, unless it is part of a long word everyone already knows.
有恐懼症的;恐懼症患者。
組成phobia + -ic
同家族的字
- phobiathe fear itself; phobic is built from this word
- claustrophobicsame -phobic ending, “having that kind of fear”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
phobicadj/ˈfəʊbɪk/
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Relating to a phobia.
- Anything can become a phobic stimulus.
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Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).
- The mail carrier was phobic of dogs.
- Even so, in many cases the homophobe truly is phobic of gays and lesbians, […]
phobicnoun/ˈfəʊbɪk/
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A person who has a phobia.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。