Definizione monolingua

apprehensive

apprehensive (comparative more apprehensive, superlative most apprehensive)

1. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
   • 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.

2. Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
   • 1670: John Milton, History of Britain

     More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

Definizione dizionario apprehensive

ansioso

apprensivo

consapevole

conscio

diffidente

diffidgnte

inquieto

sveglio

timoroso

Altri significati:

anticipating something with anxiety or fear

Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.