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English Dictionary: apprehensive	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apprehensive adj quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Synonym(s): apprehensive, discerning 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" Synonym(s): apprehensive, worried in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apprehensive \Ap`prehen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. appr[82]hensif. See {Apprehend}.] 1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive* . . . friend, is listening to our talk. --Hawthorne. 2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. --Jer. Taylor. 3. Relating to the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. --Sir W. Hamilton. 4. Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. --Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. --Gladstone. 5. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. --Milton.