English-Thai Dictionary
apprehensive
ADJ ประหวั่น ตระหนก หวั่นกลัว พรั่นพรึง กลัวเกรง fearful worried anxious pra-wan
apprehensive
ADJ สามารถ เข้าใจ ได้ เร็ว sa-mad-khao-jai-dai-reol
apprehensiveness
N การ หวั่นกลัว kan-wan-klue
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
APPREHENSIVE
a. 1. Quick to understand; as, an apprehensive scholar.
2. Fearful; in expectation of evil; as, we were apprehensive of fatal consequences.
[This is the usual sense of the word. ]
3. Suspicious; inclined to believe; as, I am apprehensive he does not understand me.
4. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [Rarely used. ]
APPREHENSIVELY
adv. In an apprehensive manner.
APPREHENSIVENESS
n.The quality of being apprehensive; readiness to understand; fearfulness.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
APPREHENSIVE
Ap `pre *hen "sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. appréhensif. 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.
APPREHENSIVELY
APPREHENSIVELY Ap `pre *hen "sive *ly, adv.
Defn: In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
APPREHENSIVENESS
APPREHENSIVENESS Ap `pre *hen "sive *ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being apprehensive.
New American Oxford Dictionary
apprehensive
ap pre hen sive |ˌapriˈhensiv ˈˌæprəˈhɛnsɪv | ▶adjective 1 anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen: he felt apprehensive about going home | [ with clause ] : they were apprehensive that something might go wrong. 2 archaic or literary of or relating to perception or understanding. DERIVATIVES ap pre hen sive ly adverb, ap pre hen sive ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English ( sense 2 ): from French appréhensif or medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehendere ‘seize, grasp ’ (see apprehension ).
Oxford Dictionary
apprehensive
ap ¦pre |hen |sive |aprɪˈhɛnsɪv | ▶adjective 1 anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen: he felt apprehensive about going home. 2 rare relating to perception or understanding. DERIVATIVES apprehensively adverb, apprehensiveness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2 ): from French appréhensif or medieval Latin apprehensivus, from Latin apprehendere ‘seize, grasp ’ (see apprehend ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
apprehensive
apprehensive adjective dentists know that many of their patients are apprehensive: anxious, worried, uneasy, nervous, concerned, agitated, tense, afraid, scared, frightened, fearful; overanxious, neurotic; informal on tenterhooks, trepidatious. ANTONYMS confident. WORD TOOLKIT Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Oxford Thesaurus
apprehensive
apprehensive adjective many of the pupils were very apprehensive about their first visit to the new school: anxious, alarmed, worried, uneasy, nervous, concerned, agitated, restless, edgy, on edge, fidgety, tense, strained, stressed, neurotic, panicky, afraid, scared, frightened, fearful, terrified; informal on tenterhooks, trepidatious. ANTONYMS confident. WORD TOOLKIT Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
apprehensive
ap pre hen sive /æ̀prɪhénsɪv /形容詞 1 «…を /…ということを » 心配 [懸念 ]して, 気づかって «about , of /that 節 » .2 ｟文 ｠理解が速い ; 洞察力のある, 明敏な .～ly 副詞
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