apprehensive

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

quick to understand“a kind and apprehensive friend — Nathaniel Hawthorne”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: worried
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm“apprehensive for one's life”“apprehensive of danger”

Apprehensive \Ap`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. appr['e]hensif. See Apprehend.]

1.Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. [1913 Webster]

It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]

2.Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] [1913 Webster]

A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

3.Relating to the faculty of apprehension. [1913 Webster]

Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.— Sir W. Hamilton.[1913 Webster]

4.Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. [1913 Webster]

Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.— Tillotson.[1913 Webster]

Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.— Gladstone.[1913 Webster]

5.Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.— Milton.[1913 Webster]