Found 3 items, similar to Apprehensive.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: apprehensive khawatir, prihatin, takut
English → English (WordNet) Definition: apprehensive 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”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Apprehensive Apprehensive \Ap`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. appr['e]hensif. See Apprehend.] 1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. [1913 Webster] It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] [1913 Webster] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 3. Relating to the faculty of apprehension. [1913 Webster] Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] 4. Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. [1913 Webster] Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. --Gladstone. [1913 Webster] 5. Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] [1913 Webster] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. --Milton. [1913 Webster]