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apprehensive

Apprehensive describes a person who is upset or worried about some future event or about the possibility that something will happen. (adjective)

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.

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See apprehensive in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See apprehensive in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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