About The Word Apprehensive
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Apprehensive
Apprehensive Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Apprehensive?
[adj] in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
[adj] mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences" [adj] quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Synonyms | Synonyms for Apprehensive: afraid(p) | anxious | discerning | perceptive | uneasy Related Terms | Find terms related to Apprehensive: afraid | agitated | alive | all nerves | all-knowing | all-overish | anxious | anxioused up | apperceptive | appercipient | apprehending | awake | aware | bothered | cognizant | comprehending | concerned | conscious | disquieted | disturbed | edgy | excitable | fearful | foreboding | frightened | high-strung | in a pucker | in a stew | in suspense | insightful | intelligent | irritable | keyed-up | knowing | knowledgeable | mindful | misgiving | nerves on edge | nervous | nervy | omniscient | on edge | on tenterhooks | on tiptoe | overanxious | overapprehensive | overstrung | panicky | perceptive | percipient | perspicacious | perturbed | prehensile | qualmish | qualmy | quivering | sagacious | sensible | sentient | shrewd | solicitous | strained | suspenseful | taut | tense | troubled | understanding | uneasy | ware | wise | with bated breath | with muscles tense | witting | zealous See Also | Apprehensive In Webster's Dictionary \Ap`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. appr['e]hensif. See
{Apprehend}.]
1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt;
discerning.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a
kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to
our talk. --Hawthorne.
2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.]
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and
folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of
it. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
4. Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may
be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of
evil.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.
--Tillotson.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.
--Gladstone.
5. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.]
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. --Milton.
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