Usually means: Anxious about future or unknown.
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  1. apprehensive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apprehensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apprehensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apprehensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apprehensive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apprehensive, apprehensive: Wordnik
  7. apprehensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apprehensive: Wiktionary
  9. apprehensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apprehensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apprehensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apprehensive, apprehensive: Dictionary.com
  13. apprehensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Apprehensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. apprehensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. apprehensive: Rhymezone
  17. apprehensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. apprehensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. apprehensive: Free Dictionary
  20. apprehensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. apprehensive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. apprehensive: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. apprehensive: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant.
adjective:  (obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
noun:  (grammar) A mood indicating an undesired outcome.

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