apprehensive
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- adjective
- /ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪv/
- She was still apprehensive but she started to come around a little bit.
- feel apprehensive
- apprehensive about the future
- reason to be apprehensive
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Watch on YouTubeUp until that point, a lot of military people were pretty apprehensive about this new equipment.
- Up until that point, a lot of military people were pretty apprehensive about this new equipment.
- You're going to be tight and tense and apprehensive and, you know, sort of hesitant to do what you want to do.
- And what we see is the teachers are very often apprehensive and then very quickly realize that this is the best teaching they've ever done in their life.
- So they were somewhat apprehensive about that.
- But the fact that he was so content made me very apprehensive.
- I think during the early stages of the four years they were quite apprehensive.
- Imagine being so being so like, what's the word being so apprehensive and so distrustful that you think we would fake having a child together?
- I was like, oh, excited, apprehensive, unsure, didn't know what it what it was going to be like.
- And what we see is the teachers are very often apprehensive and then very quickly realized that this is the best teaching they've ever done in their life.
Examples
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When the first day of school came, Romy was apprehensive, scared to be found out.
Fiction book (1997) -
She was apprehensive when her boss called her into the office for an unexpected meeting.
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Up until that point, a lot of military people were pretty apprehensive about this new equipment.
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About half of them had already left, and others were looking as apprehensive as I felt.
Academic text (2003) -
Although some were initially apprehensive, the students took on the challenge of this program.
Academic text (1992) -
So they were somewhat apprehensive about that.
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I know I was apprehensive.
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Then why are you so apprehensive?
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The pre-departure phase of students returning home often finds the students apprehensive about leaving the new community.
Academic text (1992) -
Colombia's deterioration has made its neighbors apprehensive and spread serious concern as far as the United States.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Feeling fear or worry about something
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Feeling nervous or upset about something that may go wrong
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Feeling afraid because you think something bad might happen
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Being afraid because something seems dangerous
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Feeling worried or nervous about something that might happen
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Feeling afraid or nervous and easily frightened
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3.6
Careful because you do not trust someone or something
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You feel worried and not relaxed
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Slow to act or speak because you feel unsure
Antonyms
How Anxious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apprehensive comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and prehend 'to grasp', the same root as in comprehend 'to understand' and the English word 'grasp'. If you 'grasp' a possible danger in your mind you feel uneasy about it, so apprehensive means anxious or fearful about what might happen.