rupophobic
/ɹu.pəʊˈfəʊ.bik/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.
Example Sentences
- "His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis."
- "We are so influenced by media-driven campaigns for absolute cleanliness that we risk becoming rupophobic, afraid to get anything soiled, to show dirt, to reveal those bad things inside of us, but also to be contaminated from contact from others, with people who are different from us."
- "It all communicates that we're rupophobic."
Etymology
From rupophobia + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more rupophobic (comparative)
most rupophobic (superlative)