claustrophobic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   uncomfortably closed or hemmed in

   a claustrophobic little room

2. 2
   adj

   Suffering 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.

3. 3
   adj

   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...

4. 4
   adj

   suffering from claustrophobia

5. 5
   noun

   Someone with claustrophobia.

Etymology

From claustrophobia + -ic.