Apprehensive - Definition

apprehensive

adj 1: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"-
Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: apprehensive, discerning]
2: 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" [syn: apprehensive, worried]
3: in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for
one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"

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