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APPREHENSIVE
apprehensive
(adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; “apprehensive for one’s life”; “apprehensive of danger”
apprehensive, worried
(adjective) 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”
apprehensive, discerning
(adjective) quick to understand; “a kind and apprehensive friend”- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
apprehensive (comparative more apprehensive, superlative most apprehensive)
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
Synonym: quick on the uptake
Source: Wiktionary
Ap`pre*hen"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. appréhensif. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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