apprehensive English

Meaning apprehensive meaning

What does apprehensive mean?

apprehensive

— adjective in fear or dread of possible evil or harm apprehensive for one's life apprehensive of danger

— adjective quick to understand a kind and apprehensive friend — Nathaniel Hawthorne

— adjective (= worried) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc apprehensive about her job not used to a city and worried about small things felt apprehensive about the consequences

Synonyms apprehensive synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as apprehensive?

apprehensive English » English

anxious

worried

fearful

afraid

nervous

timid

discerning

concerned

worrisome

troubled

tense

shaking

cowardly

alarmed

agitated

wise

white-livered

wary

vacillating

uneasy

uncertain

trepid

suspicious

streaky

sensible

scrupulous

sagacious

preoccupied

poor-spirited

perturbed

percipient

perceptual

mistrustful

luminous

lily-livered

knowledgeable

keen

jumpy

judicious

jittery

intelligent

intellective

hesitant

guilty conscience

feeling fear

fearing

feared

faint-hearted

eerie

doubtful

Topics apprehensive topics

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Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

• What words describe someone who feels worried?
  worried anxious anxiously apprehensive bothered concerned dismayed disturbed strained troubled uneasy unsettled

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Nervous

• What words describe someone who feels nervous?
  nervous apprehensive edgy fidgety flustered ill at ease jittery restless tense uneasy uneasily uptight