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Apprehensive   /ˌæprɪhˈɛnsɪv/  /ˌæprihˈɛnsɪv/   Listen
Apprehensive

adjective
1.
Quick to understand.  Synonym: discerning.
2.
Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc.  Synonym: worried.  "Not used to a city and worried about small things" , "Felt apprehensive about the consequences"
3.
In fear or dread of possible evil or harm.  "Apprehensive of danger"



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"Apprehensive" Quotes from Famous Books



... of literary labour." She was conscious of a premonitory, apprehensive chill that travelled from the roots of her hair down her spine, and apparently made its exit at the heels of her Louis Quinze shoes. "So the 'Social Jottings' column will not appear in the ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... conspiracy on the part of objects animate and inanimate to make him—well, suspicious. And Uncle Tobe was not given to nervousness, which made it worse. He was ashamed of himself that he should be in such state. Glancing about him in a furtive, almost in an apprehensive way, he crossed the front room to the middle room, which was his bed chamber, the kitchen being the room at the rear. In the middle room he lit a coal-oil lamp which stood upon a small centre table. Alongside the ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... returned to the sitting-room, where the old man had seated himself in the rocking-chair, and was taking a mental inventory of the goods and chattels with a momentary keenness in his look that no way reassured Hitty's apprehensive heart. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... numerous were the cautions I received, and the precautions I was recommended to take. Among those present, was a friend of mine named Thomson, who was rather given to be cynical in his remarks, and was besides addicted to the study of phrenology. He declared that for his part he was not so apprehensive concerning me on account of the pikes of the Repealers as of the darts ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... conscious of an irritated sense of injury, which Gillian's rather apprehensive little comments on the absence of further news concerning young Raynham scarcely tended ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler


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