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apprehensivelate 14c., "capable of perceiving, fitted for mental impression," from Medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehensus, past participle of apprehendere (see apprehend). Meaning "fe [..]
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apprehensivequick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job& [..]
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apprehensive quick to understand.
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apprehensiveUneasy or fearful about something that might happen (Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA 2001, p. 103)
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apprehensive(adj) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm(adj) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc(adj) quick to understand
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apprehensiveapt to apprehend or understand
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apprehensiveQuick to understand
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apprehensive1. 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. "A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.&qu [..]
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apprehensive
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
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*: ''this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day [..]
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