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   Ap·pre·hen·sive

   /ˌaprəˈhensiv/

   

   adjective

   • 1. anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen: "he felt apprehensive about going home"
   • 2. relating to perception or understanding. rare

   Word Origin late Middle English (in apprehensive (sense 2)): from French appréhensif or medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehendere ‘seize, grasp’ (see apprehend).

   Derivatives

   • 1. apprehensively adverb
   • 2. apprehensiveness noun

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   What does apprehensive mean?

   • This would not have been of so much consequence, perhaps, but that Matava became apprehensive that they might desert. Apprehensive definition: uneasy or fearful about something that might happen. See examples of APPREHENSIVE used in a sentence.

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   What does apprehension mean?

   • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear. It was also apprehensive about the restrictions on demonstrations and freedom of movement of Tibetans. 它还对西藏人的示威和活动自由受到限制表示 忧虑 。 zh Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect 焦慮;擔心;畏懼 · 焦慮;擔心;畏懼 apprehension n.

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   Is apprehensiveness a noun or hypernym?

   • Familiarity information: APPREHENSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare. Hypernyms ("apprehensiveness" is a kind of...): fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

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   What does fearful apprehensive mean?

   • fearful, apprehensive, afraid mean disturbed by fear. fearful implies often a timorous or worrying temperament. apprehensive suggests a state of mind and implies a premonition of evil or danger. afraid often suggests weakness or cowardice and regularly implies inhibition of action or utterance.

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   Apprehensive definition: uneasy or fearful about something that might happen. See examples of APPREHENSIVE used in a sentence.

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   Definition of apprehensive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   uk / ˌæprɪˈhensɪv / us. Add to word list. Add to word list. feeling anxious about something that you are going to do: He's a bit apprehensive about living away from home. (Definition of apprehensive from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   Add to word list. feeling anxious about something that you are going to do: He's a bit apprehensive about living away from home. (Definition of apprehensive from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ap‧pre‧hen‧sive /ˌæprɪˈhensɪv / adjective worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future apprehensive about/of We’d been a little apprehensive about their visit. apprehensive that I was apprehensive that something would go wrong.

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   May 28, 2024 · apprehensive. (æprɪhɛnsɪv ) adjective. Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen. People are still terribly apprehensive about the future. Synonyms: anxious, concerned, worried, afraid More Synonyms of apprehensive. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy: was apprehensive before the surgery. 2. Archaic Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend. ap′pre·hen′sive·ly adv. ap′pre·hen′sive·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.