Apprehensive

Definition of Apprehensive

Ap`pre`hen´sive
a.1.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.
- Hawthorne.
2.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.
- Jer. Taylor.
3.Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.
- Sir W. Hamilton.
4.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.
- Tillotson.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.
- Gladstone.
5.Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.
- Milton.

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