claustrophobia
Word family nounclaustrophobeclaustrophobiaadjectiveclaustrophobicadverbclaustrophobically
claus·tro·pho·bi·a /ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbiə $ ˌklɒːstrəˈfoʊ-/ noun [uncountableU] —claustrophobic adjectiveadj I get claustrophobic in elevators. 我在电梯里就会感到幽闭恐怖。
a claustrophobic atmosphere 幽闭恐怖的气氛
claustrophobia• Although she definitely did suffer from claustrophobia, Sylvia was by no means the worst case I have seen.• She had never suffered from claustrophobia, but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt.• I was getting claustrophobia at my office at home.• It was agoraphobia but felt like claustrophobia.• What flies seeks the shadows of earth, what is earth-bound, air bursting: oases about to melt, claustrophobia gasping.• I have to fight against a feeling of claustrophobia here.• To be here, to have this happening, the claustrophobia of their fatuous intrigues?• The claustrophobia expresses their sense of the children being too close. Origin claustrophobia (1800-1900) Modern Latin Latin claustrum “bar keeping a door closed” (
→ CLOISTER) +
Modern Latin phobia “fear”