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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apprehensive \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: apprehensive adj 1: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {discerning}] 2: 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" [syn: {anxious}] 3: in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
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