apprehensive

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. quick to understand
- "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Syn:
discerning
• Similar to:
perceptive
• Derivationally related forms:
apprehend
2. mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
- apprehensive about her job
- not used to a city and worried about small things
- felt apprehensive about the consequences
• Syn:
worried
• Similar to:
uneasy
• Derivationally related forms:
apprehend, apprehensiveness
3. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
- apprehensive for one's life
- apprehensive of danger
• Similar to:
afraid
• Derivationally related forms:
apprehend, apprehensiveness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  worried, discerning