Definition for Apprehension:

• painful expectation

Synonyms for Apprehension:

• n.

  •
  • chill.
  •
  • book,
  • funk.
  •
  • law.
  •
  • hold,
  • grasp,
  • grip.
  •alarm (noun)
  • panic.
  •angst (noun)
  • mid life crisis,
  • mid life crisi,
  • midlife crisi,
  • weltschmerzes,
  • mid-life crisi.
  •anticipation (noun)
  • fore-tastes,
  • pre-visions,
  • pro-mises,
  • fore thought,
  • pro-spects,
  • fore sights,
  • pre-vision,
  • pre science,
  • fore-thoughts,
  • fore-sights,
  • fore-cast,
  • fore-sight,
  • pre occupation,
  • looking forwards,
  • pro-mise,
  • pre-sciences,
  • pre-occupations,
  • fore cast,
  • fore-casts,
  • fore sight,
  • in tuitions,
  • fore-seeings,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • foreseeings,
  • out-look,
  • fore thoughts,
  • out-looks,
  • fore taste,
  • pre-science,
  • pre occupations,
  • pre-occupation,
  • pro mise,
  • pre-conception,
  • fore-taste,
  • in-tuition,
  • pro mises,
  • pre vision,
  • fore-seeing,
  • pre conception,
  • in-tuitions,
  • pre sciences,
  • fore tastes,
  • out look,
  • fore casts,
  • in tuition,
  • fore seeings,
  • high hope,
  • fore seeing,
  • prior knowledges,
  • pro spect,
  • pro-spect,
  • pro spects,
  • pre conceptions,
  • out looks,
  • pre visions,
  • fore-thought.
  •anxiety (noun)
  • dis quietude,
  • dis quiets,
  • un-certainty,
  • nailbitings,
  • dis-quiets,
  • Nail Biting,
  • cold sweats,
  • dis quiet,
  • all overs,
  • fretfulnesses,
  • un-certainties,
  • dis-quietude,
  • un certainties,
  • worriments,
  • pins needles,
  • dis-quiet,
  • un certainty,
  • heebiejeebies,
  • nail-bitings,
  • nailbiting,
  • ants pants,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis quietudes,
  • nail bitings,
  • allovers,
  • heebie jeebies.
  •anxiety, fear (noun)
  • dread,
  • disquiet,
  • mistrust,
  • suspicion,
  • misgiving.
  •anxiousness (noun)
  • agita.
  •apprehension (noun)
  • collar,
  • catch,
  • savvy,
  • taking into custody,
  • pinch,
  • discernment.
  •awareness (noun)
  • in formations,
  • re-cognition,
  • alivenesses,
  • in-formations,
  • in-formation,
  • sentiences,
  • re cognition,
  • bodhis,
  • re cognitions.
  •awe (noun)
  • re spect,
  • re gards,
  • re-spect,
  • re-spects,
  • re-gard,
  • re spects.
  •bugbear (noun)
  • boogeymen,
  • Loups-garous,
  • loups garous,
  • loupsgarous,
  • loupgarou,
  • loup garou.
  •capture (noun)
  • acquisition,
  • abduction,
  • confiscation,
  • occupation,
  • appropriation.
  •care (noun)
  • dis-composure,
  • dis-composures,
  • dis composures,
  • un-happinesses,
  • un happiness,
  • un happinesses,
  • dis composure,
  • un-happiness.
  •catching and arresting (noun)
  • Collaring,
  • booking,
  • taking.
  •cognizance/cognition (noun)
  • in-sights,
  • in sights,
  • in-sight.
  •cold feet (noun)
  • cold-feet,
  • weak knee,
  • chicken hearts,
  • fear carrying out activity,
  • faint hearts,
  • white feathers,
  • fear carrying out an activity,
  • backing outs,
  • fear of carrying out activity.
  •comprehension (noun)
  • prehensions,
  • slow takes.
  •concept (noun)
  • brain waves,
  • big ideas,
  • hypo thesis,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • fool notions.
  •conception (noun)
  • concentratings,
  • philosophizings,
  • de sign,
  • ex-position,
  • considerings,
  • deliberatings,
  • re presentations,
  • communings,
  • ex planation,
  • de signs,
  • re presentation,
  • de-sign,
  • envisagings,
  • meditatings,
  • ex-positions,
  • fancyings,
  • ex planations,
  • ex-planations,
  • de liberating,
  • re-presentations,
  • mental grasps,
  • speculatings,
  • cogitatings,
  • de-signs,
  • de-liberating.
  •concern (noun)
  • important matters,
  • tender loving cares.
  •concernment (noun)
  • solicitousnesses.
  •construction (noun)
  • ex pose,
  • ex plications,
  • ex plication,
  • ex-plications,
  • construals,
  • ex-pose,
  • ex-plication.
  •detection (noun)
  • re velations,
  • dis closure,
  • un earthing,
  • ferreting outs,
  • tracking downs,
  • re-velation,
  • re-velations,
  • un maskings,
  • unmaskings,
  • un coverings,
  • dis-closure,
  • un-maskings,
  • un-covering,
  • un covering,
  • unearthings,
  • un-masking,
  • un masking,
  • dis closures,
  • dis-closures,
  • un-earthing,
  • uncoverings,
  • re velation,
  • un-coverings.
  •detention (noun)
  • with-holdings,
  • with holding,
  • arrestations,
  • time river,
  • keeping ins,
  • de lays,
  • holding pens,
  • time up river,
  • with holdings,
  • holding backs,
  • de-lays,
  • time the river,
  • de lay,
  • with-holding,
  • de-lay,
  • immurements.
  •discovery (noun)
  • detection.
  •dismay (noun)
  • disillusionment,
  • up set,
  • disheartenment,
  • the blahs,
  • blahs,
  • disillusionments,
  • disheartenments.
  •doubt (noun)
  • scruple,
  • waverings,
  • demurral,
  • skepticism,
  • agnosticism,
  • lack of confidence,
  • scruples.
  •dread (noun)
  • trepidities.
  •expectation (noun)
  • envisioning,
  • contemplation,
  • pessimism,
  • uncertainty,
  • expectancy.
  •fear (noun)
  • faintheartedness,
  • fear,
  • cowardice,
  • terror,
  • fright,
  • intimidation,
  • agitation,
  • spinelessness.
  •feeling (noun)
  • apprehension.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •ghost (noun)
  • bugbear.
  •horror (noun)
  • dis gusts,
  • dis gust,
  • dis-gust,
  • dis-gusts.
  •hunch (noun)
  • fore-wisdoms,
  • pre-cognition,
  • prenotations,
  • feeling in one's bone,
  • feeling bone,
  • feeling in one bone,
  • feeling in ones bone,
  • pre-apprehensions,
  • preapprehensions,
  • pre apprehension,
  • pre-notations,
  • forewisdoms,
  • pre-apprehension,
  • bodings,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • pre cognition,
  • pre notation,
  • ominations,
  • pre apprehensions,
  • pre cognitions,
  • fore knowledges,
  • feeling one bone,
  • pre-notation,
  • pre notices,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • fore wisdoms,
  • augurations,
  • fore-wisdom,
  • pre-notice,
  • feeling one's bone,
  • feeling in bone,
  • fore knowledge,
  • pre-notices,
  • feeling ones bone,
  • pre-cognitions,
  • pre notations,
  • fore wisdom,
  • pre notice,
  • presagements.
  •idea (noun)
  • concept.
  •premonition (noun)
  • pre monitions,
  • pre monition,
  • winds change,
  • pre-monitions,
  • pre-monition.
  •presage (noun)
  • pre sage,
  • bodements,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre-sages,
  • pre sages.
  •qualm (noun)
  • mis-doubt,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re morses,
  • in securities,
  • re monstrances,
  • in-securities,
  • re-morses,
  • re-monstrances,
  • mis doubts,
  • re monstrance,
  • in-security,
  • mis-doubts,
  • re-morse,
  • mis doubt,
  • re morse.
  •reason (noun)
  • rationalism,
  • reasonableness,
  • marbles,
  • generalizations,
  • sens,
  • sensibleness,
  • generalization,
  • sound mind.
  •seizure (noun)
  • grabbings.
  •shyness (noun)
  • re-serve,
  • re serve,
  • sheepishnesses,
  • timorousnesses,
  • re-serves.
  •sight (noun)
  • after images,
  • after image,
  • field vision,
  • range vision,
  • eyeshots.
  •suspense (noun)
  • cloak dagger,
  • page turner,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • cliff hanger,
  • in decisiveness,
  • cliff hangers,
  • pageturner,
  • page turners,
  • pageturners,
  • cloak daggers,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • in-decisiveness,
  • page-turners,
  • cloak and daggers,
  • in decisivenesses.
  •tension (noun)
  • dis comfort,
  • edginesses,
  • bad feelings,
  • dis-comfort,
  • antsinesses,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis comforts.
  •understanding (noun)
  • intellect,
  • idea,
  • perspicacity,
  • thought,
  • intelligence.
  •uneasiness (noun)
  • dis pleasure,
  • un-rest,
  • dis-contents,
  • un easiness,
  • dis pleasures,
  • in stability,
  • in quietude,
  • dis contents,
  • in-stabilities,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • un-rests,
  • dyspathies,
  • in-quietudes,
  • un-easiness,
  • un easinesses,
  • un rest,
  • in-stability,
  • queasinesses,
  • dis-content,
  • in quietudes,
  • un-easinesses,
  • in-quietude,
  • dis content,
  • in stabilities,
  • dis-pleasures.
  •worry (noun)
  • head ache,
  • concernment.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • vigilante,
  • scare,
  • body search,
  • Breath Test,
  • awe,
  • identity parade,
  • bounty hunter,
  • charge sheet,
  • breathalyze,
  • technophobia,
  • dawn raid,
  • phobia,
  • pull over,
  • Miranda Rights,
  • fearfulness,
  • the willies,
  • go after,
  • panic attack,
  • rap sheet,
  • citizen's arrest.
  •
  • hysteria,
  • come for,
  • catch up with,
  • pull in,
  • suspected,
  • detain,
  • nab,
  • question,
  • gloom,
  • fingerprint,
  • stress,
  • questioning,
  • trauma,
  • pickup,
  • raid,
  • apprehend,
  • statement.
  •
  • interview,
  • caution,
  • trap,
  • wobble,
  • lineup.
  •
  • rap,
  • suspect.
  •
  • give up,
  • round up.
  •
  • charge.
  •consciousness
  • awareness.
  •estimate
  • opinion,
  • belief,
  • conclusion.

Paraphrases for Apprehension:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fear.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    trepidation, foreboding.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Apprehending, perception, consternation, Detainment, grasp, incarceration, impression, threat, interdiction.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    arrest, arrests.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    concern, anxiety, worry, apprehend, uneasiness, arrest, disquiet, unease, preoccupation, suspicion, hesitation, arresting, dread, understanding, alarm, awe, doubt, confiscation, confusion, scare.

Antonyms for Apprehension:

• n.

  • anxiety, fear
    belief, Imperception, trust, faith, ease, peace, misunderstanding, confidence, certainty, calm, calmness.
  • catching and arresting
    letting go, liberation, release.
  • understanding
    ignorance.
  • Other antonyms:
    easiness, quiet, relief, solace, comfort, contentment, Misperception, content, placidness, consolation, optimism, security, emancipation, excitement, anticipation, discharge, hope, repose, unconcern, hopefulness, quietude.

Apprehension Sentence Examples:

• She went on to the apprehension of a change in him that hitherto she had not permitted herself to see - a change in his attitude to her.

• Amory, frantic with apprehension, had stayed behind with Jarvo, certain that St. George could not have left the mountain.

Homophones for Apprehension:

• afibrinogenemia.

Hypernym for Apprehension:

• n.

  • feeling
    gloom, gloominess, boding, pall, somberness, trepidation, foreboding, sombreness, chill, premonition, presentiment, suspense.

Hyponym for Apprehension:

• n.

  • feeling
    fright, fear, fearfulness.