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The definition of apprehensive is a person who is upset or worried about some future event or about the possibility that something will happen.

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If you have a premonition that something bad is going to happen and that makes you very concerned and nervous, that is an example of being apprehensive.

See apprehensive in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

able or quick to apprehend or understand
having to do with perceiving or understanding
anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy

Origin: ME < ML apprehensivus < pp. of L apprehendere, apprehend

Related Forms:

apprehensively adverb
apprehensiveness noun

See apprehensive in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy. See Synonyms at afraid.
Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

Related Forms:

apˌpre·henˈsive·ly adverb

apˌpre·henˈsive·ness noun

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