claustrophobic

comparative more claustrophobic · superlative most claustrophobic

1. human sciencesSuffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

   Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

   2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013

2. Cramped and confined, so as to induce claustrophobia.

   ...within the monstrous arrangements of dried flowers on the table-tops, against the Victorian clutter of that claustrophobic room...

   1994, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes

plural claustrophobics

1. Someone with claustrophobia.