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US
/ˌæpɹiˈhɛnsɪv, ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv/
]
[ UK /ˌæpɹɪhˈɛnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ˌæpɹɪhˈɛnsɪv/ ]
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 -
quick to understand
a kind and apprehensive friend -
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
apprehensive of danger
apprehensive for one's life
How To Use apprehensive In A Sentence
- In the Zirgana mountains large red deer softly returned their gaze from an apprehensive distance.
- I sense they are very keen to do well, if a little bit apprehensive. Times, Sunday Times
- You're driving mad with all this constant eye moving, and apprehensiveness, and such.
- Adding to the rosiness of the outside world is an unexpected rise in the friendliness of the vet whom I was apprehensive about seeing earlier in the week.
- Involuntarily, she stepped in, biting the inside of her cheek apprehensively and casting her eyes over the rows of neatly aligned desks in the room.
- The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
- They were both very impressed with the idea of helping in the store, if a little apprehensive. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
- I would like to use ‘fairness essences’ to lighten the freckles but am apprehensive that it may lead to leucoderma.
- Although she is excited about going to school, she is also rather apprehensive and fearful. Educational Psychology in a Changing World
- They felt apprehensive about the approach of war.