Apprehensive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPREHENSIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• fearful
• anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
• relating to perception or understanding.
• Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
• Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
• Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
• Anticipative of something unfavorable\' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
• Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
• quick to understand
• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capable of understanding or quick to do so; discerning

Words related to APPREHENSIVE

apprehensively27 fearful13

Words that contain APPREHENSIVE

apprehensively27 inapprehensive24 unapprehensive24 misapprehensive27 apprehensivenes25 apprehensiveness26 apprehensivenesses28

How to use APPREHENSIVE in a sentence

• When all the three had departed, Rustem began to be apprehensive that something unpleasant would occur, and thought it prudent to send Feramurz to preserve the peace.
• So apprehensive was I that I lingered an hour on my little riverside porch, dreading the events that I felt the day must unfold.
• And this, Madam, makes me apprehensive, that you will get into so low- spirited a way, that you will not be able to enjoy the happiness that seems to await us.
• That she is even apprehensive that the step she has taken of going off with me will make the ladies of a family of such rank and honour as ours think slightly of her.
• A strange apprehensive creature! Her terror is too great for the occasion.
• He was mortally apprehensive, and had a sickly sensation in the stomach.
• She obeyed in fear, apprehensive that her time had come.
• Danger had come often and very near, but it had always passed, and, for the present, at least, he was not apprehensive.
• A pale woman, apparently as apprehensive as they, rose in a haste that had almost some element of apology in it, and offered her hand to Mrs.
• He remembered the malice that rides the winter winds, the mischief that comes to Arctic widows, and he grew apprehensive.
• They might almost have been made up of conspirators, so intent they seemed, so apprehensive lest even their thoughts might be read.
• The governor went back to his own craft and moved her about a mile, being apprehensive of a boat attack in the darkness, should he remain where he was.
• With apprehensive caution therefore it was revealed, and he was listened to with unexpected calmness.
• They did not seem apprehensive that Folly Bay would get salmon for forty cents.
• The lights of the city showed so brightly, the enemy offering no resistance to our advance, I could not help feeling apprehensive of being in a trap.
• The part played in lying by disturbances of the apprehensive, retentive, and reproductive faculties will not be discussed here in detail.
• Mozart, the celebrated composer, was extremely apprehensive of death, and at all times he laboured under profound melancholy.
• Sir, I am delighted to see you here, and looking so well! Your sudden arrival at Bath made me apprehensive for your health.
• For it receded as it came, leaving her, a moment later, chilled and apprehensive before their over-troubled future.
• This difference of opinion, they were apprehensive would involve them in a thousand perplexities, yet they could only be guided by circumstances.
• More than once Damaris shrank close to Carteret, startled by and apprehensive of she knew not what.
• Then he opened the inner door and looked in on the two clerks, pale and haggard, and apprehensive of a repulse.
• Yet as he rode along he could not forbear throwing an apprehensive glance behind.
• Could he be gone, leaving me here? Impossible! Apprehensive of I knew not what, I pushed back my chair, and left the table.
• He never complained or appeared apprehensive, but I remember the first time he showed any weariness of spirit.
• The Turks were apprehensive that the Greeks might rise and disarmed them all before commencing the campaign.
• Rodolph, apprehensive lest fatigue should prove fatal, would have declined an immediate action, but he found it impossible to restrain the ardor of his men.
• There was one spot in the river of which we were rather apprehensive.

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