| 单词 | apprehensive |
| 释义 | apprehensive (once / 1225 pages) 1adj 2adj If you're apprehensive, you're anxious or fearful. If you just got run over by a crazy bicyclist, you might be a bit apprehensive crossing the street. Apprehensive is from a Latin word meaning "to seize," and it originally meant "quick to seize impressions or ideas, perceptive, intelligent." Now it means "anticipating something bad, fearful of what may happen." Synonyms are afraid, which suggest a more immediate fear, and fearful, which suggests a more general temperament ("a fearful child"). You can be apprehensive about a situation while being an optimistic and courageous person in general. WORD FAMILYapprehensive: apprehensively, apprehensiveness, unapprehensive+/apprehend: apprehended, apprehender, apprehending, apprehends, apprehensible, apprehension, apprehensive, misapprehend/apprehender: apprehenders/apprehensible: apprehensibly/apprehension: apprehensions/misapprehend: misapprehended, misapprehending, misapprehends, misapprehension/misapprehension: misapprehensions USAGE EXAMPLES“Estonians are not nervous — at best, apprehensive in the face of ambiguous messages,” he said. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) I became increasingly apprehensive but eventually, one organisation - Rusta - reassured me a bit. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) For someone who grew up with a famous dad and was a star at Kansas State in college, Lockett is, by nature, apprehensive of attention. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1adj in fear or dread of possible evil or harm apprehensive for one's life apprehensive of danger Syn afraid filled with fear or apprehension 2adj mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc 2apprehensive about her job felt apprehensive about the consequences Syn worried uneasy lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance adj quick to understand "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Syn discerning perceptive having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment |
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