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unappreˈhensive, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Not apprehensive or quick to understand; stupid, unintelligent.
1624Donne Devot. Med. xiv. (ed. 2) 321 When they [sc. honours and pleasures] come in an vnapprehensive Age, they come..as a Pardon, when the head is off. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. Wks. 1851 V. 130 Unapprehensive, yet impudent; suttle Prowlers, Pastors in Name, but indeed Wolves. 1770Gray in Corr. w. Nicholls (1843) 104 Pray let the next you send me be halt and blind, dull, unapprehensive, and wrong headed. 1786Francis the Philanthropist I. 66 The wine was sour, the sheets wet,..and the servants unapprehensive and impertinent. 1825Scott Betrothed v, Frame not thyself more unapprehensive than nature hath formed thee. 1840J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1842) V. iii. 41 They look at them as infants gaze at the objects which meet their eyes, in a vague unapprehensive way.
2. Not anticipative or fearful of danger, etc.
1666W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 28 The patient being unapprehensive of his danger. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 267 That stupor and benummedness of spirit, whereby men are made unapprehensive of their afflictions. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 227 Unapprehensive of the Destiny which attended him. 1805Wordsw. Prelude ii. 455 And for this cause to thee I speak, unapprehensive of contempt. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1885) I. xxvi. 409 For there were thousands of travelers on the Continent, unapprehensive of danger.
b. With clause, or without const.
a1705J. Howe Living Temple i. ii. §8, I am not unapprehensive that I might..have proceeded in another method. 1742Blair Grave 477 In gamesome Mood To frolick on Eternity's dread Brink, Unapprehensive. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xxxix. 283 My heart is a little lighter: Yet not unapprehensive. 1829Scott Anne of G. ix, In the hour of unaffected and unapprehensive ease and simplicity. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxvii. (1856) 340 note, The animals were entirely unapprehensive. |