hydrophobic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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adjective lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water
adjective abnormally afraid of water

From hydrophobia + -ic.

Only a week or two before her death, she was merry enough to ask her doctor that dreadful punning conundrum about the resemblance between an ice-cream vender, and an hydrophobic patient--the answer turning on the legend "Water ices and ice creams" (water I sees, and I screams)--telling him that it was a professional conundrum. — Harriet Martineau, Florence Fenwick Miller

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