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apprehensive
 
Adjective apprehensive has 3 senses
  1. apprehensive, discerning - quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
  2. anxious, apprehensive - mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
    Antonyms: easy, at ease (indirect, via uneasy)
  3. apprehensive - in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
    Antonyms:     unafraid, fearless (indirect, via afraid)
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