Word Meanings - APPREHENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. A man that has spent his

Additional info about word: APPREHENSIVE

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. 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. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPREHENSIVE)

• Afraid
• Fearful
• apprehensive
• timid
• timorous
• cowardly
• fainthearted
• cautious
• careful
• frightened
• alarmed
• terrified
• suspicious
• distrustful
• anxious
• Timid
• hesitating
• terrible
• awful
• frightful
• shocking
• terrific
• afraid
• horrible
• dreadful
• Perceptive
• Cognitive
• sensitive
• percipient

Related words: (words related to APPREHENSIVE)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• ALARMABLE
  Easily alarmed or disturbed.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• FRIGHTEN
  To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• OMNIPERCIPIENT
  Perceiving everything. Dr. H. More.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.