Associations to the word «Apprehensive»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
APPREHENSIVE, adjective. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
APPREHENSIVE, adjective. Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
Dictionary definition
APPREHENSIVE, adjective. Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
APPREHENSIVE, 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".
APPREHENSIVE, adjective. In fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.