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Apprehensive

APPREHEN'SIVE, a.
1. Quick to understand; as, an apprehensive scholar.
2. Fearful; in expectation of evil; as, we were apprehensive of fatal consequences.
[This is the usual sense of the word.]
3. Suspicious; inclined to believe; as, I am apprehensive he does not understand me.
4. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [Rarely used.]
apprehensive appears in definitions for these words:
Apprehensive Apprehensively Apprehensiveness Doubt Fearful Inapprehensive Jealous Unapprehensive

 

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