What is the meaning of apprehensive?

adjective

  • Quick to understand."a kind and apprehensive friend- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc.
    • usage: "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
  • In fear or dread of possible evil or harm.
    • usage: "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
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