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Phobic vs Fearful - What's the difference?

phobic | fearful |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to a phobia.
  • (rfc-sense) Used to describe a political or cultural view opposed to the norm..... as defined by the observer.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A phobic person.

    • fearful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
    • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

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