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apprehensive   (TTS Sound)

The adj apprehensive has 3 senses

• apprehensive, discerning -- (quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne)


• apprehensive, worried -- (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")


• apprehensive -- (in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger")