Usually means: Anxious about future or unknown.
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  1. apprehensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. apprehensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apprehensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apprehensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apprehensive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apprehensive, apprehensive: Wordnik
  7. apprehensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apprehensive: Wiktionary
  9. apprehensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apprehensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apprehensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apprehensive, apprehensive: Dictionary.com
  13. apprehensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Apprehensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. apprehensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. apprehensive: Rhymezone
  17. apprehensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. apprehensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. apprehensive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. apprehensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. apprehensive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. apprehensive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. apprehensive: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apprehensive)

▸ adjective:  Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A mood indicating an undesired outcome.

Similar:
uneasy, anxious, afraid, discerning, perceptive, nervous, leery, daunted, edgy, hesitant, more...

Opposite:
confident, calm, assured, unworried, relaxed

Types:
nervous, anxious, worried, concerned, nervous about, more...

Phrases:
apprehensive feeling, apprehensive in advance, apprehensive situation, apprehensive feelings, grow apprehensive, more...

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Similar:
uneasy, anxious, afraid, discerning, perceptive, nervous, leery, daunted, edgy, hesitant, more...

Opposite:
confident, calm, assured, unworried, relaxed

Types:
nervous, anxious, worried, concerned, nervous about, more...

Phrases:
apprehensive feeling, apprehensive in advance, apprehensive situation, apprehensive feelings, grow apprehensive, apprehensive conjunction, apprehensive despair, more...

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue,     olive green,     dusky pink,     charcoal, more...



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