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Definition: Claustrophobic |
ClaustrophobicAdjective1. Uncomfortably closed or hemmed in; "a claustrophobic little room". 2. Suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're a claustrophobic. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Claustrophobic Greenery" by Toby Cummings Commentary: "I took this picture in my backyard behind our lilac bushes. Hope you aren't claustrophobic! The leaves are closing in..... ahhhh!! Hehe..." |
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| "Claustrophobic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Claustrophobic" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 139 | 26,913 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
claustrophobic | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "claustrophobic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | klaustrofobní. (various references) | |
French | claustrophobe. (various references) | |
German | klaustrophobisch. (various references) | |
Hungarian | klausztrofóbiás. (various references) | |
Manx | lane feoh chionney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | austrophobicclay.(various references) | |
Russian | клаустрофобный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klaustrofobičan. (various references) | |
Spanish | claustrofóbico, claustrófobo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "claustrophobic": claustrophobically. (additional references) | |
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"Claustrophobic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: claustophobic, claustraphobic, claustrophibic, claustrophilic, clostrophobic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "claustrophobic" (pronounced klô'strufō"bik) |
| 6 | -u f ō" b i k | homophobic. |
| 5 | -f ō" b i k | phobic. |
| 4 | -ō" b i k | aerobic, anaerobic. |
| 3 | -b i k | acerbic, amoebic, arabic, ascorbic, cherubic, cubic, pubic, syllabic, xenophobic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: blastoporic, subcortical, subtropical. | |
-4 letters: catholicos, ochlocrats, patchoulis, politburos. | |
-5 letters: acroliths, acropolis, apostolic, atrocious, bicolours, broccolis, calthrops, carbolics, catholics, chlorotic, clubroots, coauthors, cobaltous, copublish, corbicula, courtship, crapshoot, holocaust, isophotal, laborious, lotharios, ochlocrat, ocularist, pachoulis, patchouli, politburo, scorbutic, sociopath, spoliator, subarctic, subtropic, suctorial, trochaics, trochilus, troopials, troupials, ultrachic, uprootals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: claustrophobically. | |
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