Phobic vs Fearful - What's the difference?
phobic | fearful |
Relating to a phobia.
(rfc-sense) Used to describe a political or cultural view opposed to the norm..... as defined by the observer.
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
As adjectives the difference between phobic and fearful
is that phobic is relating to a phobia while fearful is frightening.As a noun phobic
is a phobic person.phobic
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Adjective
(en adjective)fearful
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Alternative forms
* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)Adjective
(fearfuller)- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
- fearful boy