apprehensive

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Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect

More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear

this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.

{a} fearful, sensible
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"
Sensible; feeling; perceptive
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
{s} worried, concerned
Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil
Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning
Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen. People are still terribly apprehensive about the future. worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future apprehensive about/of
quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Relating to the faculty of apprehension
Knowing; conscious; cognizant
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger" quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
apprehensively
in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension
apprehensiveness
{n} the quality of being apprehensive
Apprehensively
with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"
Apprehensiveness
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
apprehensively
fearfully, worriedly, in a concerned manner
apprehensively
In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger
apprehensiveness
The quality or state of being apprehensive
apprehensiveness
{i} tendency to worry, nervousness; shrewdness, perceptiveness
apprehensiveness
the state of being apprehensive
apprehensive
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