apprehensive

Meanings

• Adjective

  Feeling anxious or fearful, often about the future or about potential dangers.

  - "Despite her apprehensive feelings, she decided to go on the rollercoaster."
  - "The detective's apprehensive demeanor made the suspect uneasy."

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Synonyms

quick on the uptake

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with apprehensive
prehensible , susceptible , comprehensible

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Variants

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apprehensive , apprehensively , apprehensiveness , apprehensivenesses

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Etymology

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From Old French 'apprehenser', to seize or take hold of, from 'apprehendre', to perceive, grasp, or apprehend.

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Trivia

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1. Apprehensive is a six-letter word.

2. Apprehensive can also be used as a verb, meaning to take into custody or to suspect or fear.

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Related Concepts

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1. anxiety: Apprehensive is related to the broader concept of anxiety, which can manifest as fear, worry, or unease.

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Quotes

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1. When the Crossroads Rhode Island social services agency switched to a 401(k) retirement plan from a pension last year, it added a feature that made some employees "apprehensive". To ensure that as many employees as possible saved for retirement, the Providence nonprofit chose to automatically enroll all its workers into the 401(k) plan and deduct a minimum of 4 percent from their paychecks.

   - Andrew Caffrey,{it}Boston Sunday Globe{/it},2 Oct. 2005

2. … Sargent, a shrewder character, was "apprehensive" about how the portrait would be viewed by the conventional crowds for whom a day out at the Salon was a social fixture in the Paris calendar. He was right. The public saw nothing lovely in this pallid, long- nosed woman with her prominent chin and superior smile.

   - Miranda Seymour,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},28 Sept. 2003

3. I arrived at my first Lamaze class the same way I showed up for my baby showers and ob-gyn appointments: a little excited, a little "apprehensive", but mostly obediently, because it's what you're supposed to do when you're pregnant.

   - Paula Spencer,{it}Parenting{/it},April 1997

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Culture

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Apprehensive has been used in literature to describe characters' emotions and fears. For example, in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the narrator is consumed by his apprehension and eventually confesses to a crime based on his fear.

How to Memorize "apprehensive"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the feeling of being apprehensive, such as a knot in your stomach or rapid heartbeat.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'apprehensive' with the feeling of fear or anxiety.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic, such as 'Apprehensive is a feeling that makes me anxious' or 'Apprehensive starts with A and means anxiety'.

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