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adjective

pertaining to or suffering from claustrophobia.

tending to induce claustrophobia: a small, airless, claustrophobic room.

Origin:
see claustrophobia, -phobic

Related forms

claus·tro·pho·bi·cal·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

If all politics is local, fashion industry politics is almost claustrophobic.

At other times, though, it is cloying and even claustrophobic.

Once on board it is easy to get lost among all the tubes at its dark and claustrophobic centre.

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If all politics is local, fashion industry politics is almost claustrophobic.

At other times, though, it is cloying and even claustrophobic.

Once on board it is easy to get lost among all the tubes at its dark and claustrophobic centre.

Also had lots of rain during one trip, but didn't feel claustrophobic.

He took the elevator, descending two floors underground to a small, claustrophobic room-the vault antechamber.

And with the top up, visibility is no worse than in the claustrophobic coupe.

Third there is the oppressive claustrophobic atmosphere.

With its cramped, bright-orange rooms, easyHotel is no place for a claustrophobic prone to migraine.

Thanks to the vestibule and wing of interior space, the tent isn't at all claustrophobic.

The ceiling is low and the sight lines are hidden, producing a claustrophobic effect.

There is the deadly serious defense, retooled before the season into a claustrophobic full-court press.

It certainly beats being banged up in jail, but life in such a small community can be claustrophobic.

He keeps up a brisk and barefoot pace through a tangled, claustrophobic wilderness, seeing it with intimate familiarity.

The scanner's large bore helps prevent patients from becoming claustrophobic.

The apartment itself is cozy without ever feeling claustrophobic.

Indian firms faced claustrophobic restrictions from the state and tended to expand in any direction where they could get air.

The airline also didn't want the crew bunks in the cargo hold, because it thought that might be claustrophobic.

People look out their windows into claustrophobic courtyards and then spend their weekends walking through vast, forestlike parks.

She was scared of heights, and too claustrophobic to make snow tunnels to her radio huts.

And the tight, awkward camera was making me claustrophobic.

The tightly packed and stylized cells give the storyline a frenzied and claustrophobic feel.

It's a cold, claustrophobic nightmare slicked with trickling engine oil and transmission fluid.

His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.

As the narrative took shape, so did the claustrophobic and gruesome reality of life in the dome.

But here at the mountain, the rooms are tiny, almost claustrophobic.

Once you go to investigate, the viewpoint switches to a claustrophobic hallway.

Its cryptic lyrics and claustrophobic sound became a powerful force shaping alternative-rock music.

Crowds make me feel claustrophobic to begin with, and being in a zoo of frenzied bargain hunters isn't my idea of a good.

The sampled sounds are unyielding, the beat relentless, claustrophobic.

The claustrophobic flyer haunted by a gremlin on the wing of his.

Life inside the ticket booth turns from secure to claustrophobic.

Some people who are not used to wearing restrictive clothing become quite claustrophobic when they are first laced in.

It could more accurately be called a slow, claustrophobic crime melodrama with a lot of talk.

In some places it's claustrophobic in other places its wide open.

Anne and her family share a claustrophobic attic with another family.

Two floors were partly removed, creating soaring volumes from claustrophobic parlors.

His plays are subtle, fragile, almost claustrophobic.

The two actors in this claustrophobic debacle are somewhat better than their material, but the material is not easily outrun.

The light shield can make a user feel a little claustrophobic and causes slight dizziness if you move your head too often.

Even his laboratory was small: a claustrophobic box at the end of a.

But staring out at a brick wall can feel a little claustrophobic or even depressing.

If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly.

Collis with the same claustrophobic staging, shrill line readings and slack pacing.

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World English Dictionary

claustrophobic (ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪk, ˌklɒs-)

—*adj*
1.	suffering from claustrophobia
2.	unpleasantly cramped, confined, or closed in: narrow claustrophobic spaces

claustrophobically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

claustrophobic

1889 (adj.), from claustrophobia + -ic. As a noun, "person who has claustrophobia," it is recorded from 1953.

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