APPREHENSIVELY

anxiously, uneasily, apprehensively

(adverb) with anxiety or apprehension; “we watched anxiously”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adverb

apprehensively (comparative more apprehensively, superlative most apprehensively)

in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension

Source: Wiktionary

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Ap`pre*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Definition: In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

APPREHENSIVE

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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