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Definitions for: Apprehensive
[adj] in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
[adj] mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
[adj] quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Webster (1913) Definition: Ap`pre*hen"sive, a. [Cf. F. appr['e]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.
Synonyms: afraid(p), anxious, discerning, perceptive, uneasy
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