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apprehensive

[ ap-ri-hen-siv ]

adjective

  1. uneasy or fearful about something that might happen:

    apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.

  2. quick to learn or understand.
  3. perceptive; discerning (usually followed by of ).


apprehensive

/ ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪv /

adjective

  1. fearful or anxious


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Derived Forms

  • ˌappreˈhensiveness, noun
  • ˌappreˈhensively, adverb

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Other Words From

  • appre·hensive·ly adverb
  • appre·hensive·ness noun
  • nonap·pre·hensive adjective
  • over·appre·hensive adjective
  • over·appre·hensive·ly adverb
  • over·appre·hensive·ness noun
  • pseudo·appre·hensive adjective
  • pseudo·appre·hensive·ly adverb
  • unap·pre·hensive adjective
  • unap·pre·hensive·ly adverb
  • unap·pre·hensive·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of apprehensive1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word apprehēnsīvus. See apprehensible, -ive

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Example Sentences

Cuse: At first, I was a little apprehensive about jumping into a genre that seemed really overdone and overwrought.

At first, the couple is apprehensive, if not downright appalled.

He then jumps off a building to go fight crime, leaving Stacy totally smitten—and more than a little apprehensive.

You find yourself reading, impressed, entertained, identifying, yet vaguely repulsed and apprehensive for him.

Interpreters, feeling apprehensive about our departure, left to rejoin their families.

I am becoming seriously apprehensive about my Lines of Communication and am forced to let you know the state of affairs.

At first he became defiant, but presently he grew apprehensive, and on taking his leave he made a foul accusation against you.

Cordelia, only, cast an apprehensive glance over her shoulder.

Our arrival dissipated the anxiety of the men, who began to be apprehensive we were taken or killed by some of the savages.

This would not have been of so much consequence, perhaps, but that Matava became apprehensive that they might desert.

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