Word Meanings - APPREHENSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

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• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• APPREHENSIVELY
  In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
• DANGER
  difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• 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
• DANGERFUL
  Full of danger; dangerous. -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. Udall.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• INAPPREHENSION
  Want of apprehension.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MISAPPREHENSIVELY
  By, or with, misapprehension.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• MISAPPREHENSION
  A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.