Ask Difference

Apprehensive vs. Apprehensiveness — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Apprehensive and Apprehensiveness

ADVERTISEMENT

Definitions

Apprehensive

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
He felt apprehensive about going home

Apprehensiveness

Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.

Apprehensive

Relating to perception or understanding.

Apprehensiveness

(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

Apprehensive

Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.
ADVERTISEMENT

Apprehensiveness

The state of being apprehensive

Apprehensive

(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

Apprehensiveness

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

Apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.

Apprehensiveness

Fearful expectation or anticipation;
The student looked around the examination room with apprehension
ADVERTISEMENT

Apprehensive

(obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.

Apprehensive

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.

Apprehensive

Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.

Apprehensive

Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.

Apprehensive

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.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.

Apprehensive

Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.

Apprehensive

Quick to understand;
A kind and apprehensive friend

Apprehensive

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

Apprehensive

In fear or dread of possible evil or harm;
Apprehensive for one's life
Apprehensive of danger

Popular Comparisons

Featured Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

New Phrases