fear of spiders
Panic at webs
Arachnophobia is the intense, irrational fear of spiders.
It's among the most common specific phobias, affecting people far out of proportion to any actual danger most spiders pose: Her arachnophobia was so severe she couldn't enter the basement.
The word combines Greek roots for spider and fear.
- eight legsArachnid or cephalopod trait
- webInterwoven filament structure
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- creepy crawlySmall unsettling creature
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
legs · hairy · tarantula · phobia · scream · panic · run away · shudder · venom · bite · cobweb · terror · disgust · black widow · creep · squish · corner · basement
- animal phobiasornithophobia, entomophobia, musophobia
- feardread, afraid, fright, frightened, panic
- fearssnakes, falling, heights, death, darkness
fear, fears, feared, fearing, fearful, fearfully, fearfulness, fearless, fearlessly