agoraphobic

[ag-er-uh-foh-bik]

adjective

1. having or experiencing agoraphobia.

   My agoraphobic brother had some success managing his symptoms through cognitive behavioral therapy.

2. relating to or characteristic of agoraphobia.

   She couldn't leave the house for years because of agoraphobic panic.

noun

1. Also agoraphobiac a person with agoraphobia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agoraphobic¹

First recorded in 1880–85; agora ¹ + -phobic

Example Sentences

City officials found him a shelter bed a few miles away but he is agoraphobic and prefers staying on the sidewalk of the neighbourhood he's lived in for the past two decades.

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And she’s concerned about him and that he’s not living life, and that in many ways, he’s like this agoraphobic person locked away in the ivory tower.

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Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.

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Street protests — a time-honored French tradition — are generally not for the agoraphobic, but on Tuesday, the crowds were the biggest on record this century.

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Her refusal to mingle gave rise to rumors that she was agoraphobic.

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