Definition for Apprehension:

• painful expectation

Synonyms for Apprehension:

• n.

  •
  • chill.
  •
  • breathalyze,
  • cold feet,
  • book,
  • trepidation,
  • fearfulness,
  • funk,
  • apprehend,
  • horror.
  •
  • bust,
  • pickup.
  •
  • grasp,
  • comprehension,
  • hold,
  • knowledge,
  • grip.
  •alarm (noun)
  • panic,
  • stress.
  •amazement (noun)
  • awe.
  •anxiety, fear (noun)
  • uneasiness,
  • suspicion,
  • alarm,
  • premonition,
  • mistrust,
  • concern,
  • foreboding,
  • presentiment,
  • trepidation,
  • dread,
  • doubt,
  • presage,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • worry,
  • disquiet,
  • misgiving.
  •anxiousness (noun)
  • agita.
  •apprehension (noun)
  • apprehensiveness,
  • understanding,
  • taking into custody,
  • misgiving,
  • dread,
  • savvy,
  • pinch,
  • discernment,
  • collar,
  • arrest,
  • catch.
  •arrest (noun)
  • detention.
  •capture (noun)
  • appropriation,
  • arrest,
  • acquisition,
  • seizure,
  • capture,
  • confiscation,
  • abduction,
  • occupation.
  •catching and arresting (noun)
  • capture,
  • booking,
  • taking,
  • Collaring,
  • seizure,
  • detention.
  •discovery (noun)
  • detection.
  •dismay (noun)
  • disheartenment.
  •doubt (noun)
  • scruple,
  • skepticism.
  •estimate (noun)
  • conclusion,
  • opinion.
  •expectance (noun)
  • preparedness,
  • deduction,
  • readiness,
  • presumption,
  • assumption,
  • foreknowledge,
  • Expectance,
  • presupposition,
  • Envisagement,
  • suspicion.
  •expectation (noun)
  • expectancy,
  • contemplation,
  • pessimism,
  • expectation,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • envisioning,
  • worriment,
  • foreboding,
  • uncertainty,
  • suspense.
  •fear (noun)
  • anxiety,
  • dread,
  • faintheartedness,
  • alarm,
  • fright,
  • spinelessness,
  • intimidation,
  • timidity,
  • cowardice,
  • fear,
  • agitation,
  • angst,
  • terror.
  •feeling (noun)
  • apprehensiveness,
  • dread.
  •foreboding (noun)
  • trepidation.
  •ghost (noun)
  • bugbear.
  •idea (noun)
  • concept.
  •intuition (noun)
  • hunch.
  •knowledge (noun)
  • consciousness.
  •mistrust (noun)
  • mistrust.
  •taking into custody (noun)
  • arrest.
  •uncertainty (noun)
  • misgiving.
  •understanding (noun)
  • idea,
  • intelligence,
  • judgment,
  • comprehension,
  • knowledge,
  • perception,
  • notion,
  • thought,
  • intellect,
  • ken,
  • awareness,
  • grasp,
  • perspicacity.
  •worry (noun)
  • concernment.

• v.

  •questioning (verb)
  • doubt.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cold feet,
  • conception,
  • breathalyze,
  • sight,
  • detention,
  • fearfulness,
  • awe,
  • phobia.
  •
  • fingerprint,
  • horror,
  • apprehend,
  • hysteria,
  • question,
  • trauma,
  • detain,
  • statement,
  • chill,
  • nab,
  • pickup,
  • stress.
  •
  • funk,
  • caution,
  • tension,
  • wobble.
  •
  • rap,
  • suspect.
  •
  • grip.
  •
  • book.
  •
  • charge.
  •consciousness
  • awareness.
  •disquiet
  • uneasiness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • emergency,
  • keen,
  • Nabbing,
  • stoppage,
  • judgment,
  • whim-whams,
  • fretful,
  • mistrust,
  • ablation,
  • intuition,
  • sight,
  • jumpiness,
  • mental grasp,
  • ideation,
  • Familiarity,
  • purview,
  • perspective,
  • anxiousness,
  • hold,
  • disturbance,
  • imago,
  • command,
  • idea,
  • boding,
  • wide-awake,
  • bugbear,
  • dog collar,
  • learn,
  • discomfort,
  • intellectual power,
  • Eidolon,
  • diffidence,
  • calibrate,
  • taking,
  • booking,
  • suspiciousness,
  • caution,
  • sense,
  • apprehensive,
  • eye,
  • charge,
  • dubiousness,
  • hint,
  • halt,
  • mastery,
  • suggestion,
  • arresting,
  • edginess,
  • circumspection,
  • all-overs,
  • shock,
  • acknowledge,
  • fickle,
  • realization,
  • scholarship,
  • cognizance,
  • prudence,
  • cravenness,
  • light,
  • breathalyze,
  • estimation,
  • find,
  • alertness,
  • presentiment,
  • interpretation,
  • position,
  • cautiousness,
  • perspicacity,
  • grip,
  • inquietude,
  • Percipience,
  • ideal,
  • premonition,
  • jitters,
  • netting,
  • distrust,
  • stop,
  • reception,
  • distrustfulness,
  • scruple,
  • intellection,
  • misgiving,
  • conceit,
  • way of thinking,
  • alive to,
  • comprehension,
  • rap,
  • grasp,
  • mental age,
  • feeling,
  • waiting,
  • taking food,
  • distress,
  • panic,
  • unsettled,
  • nab,
  • cliff-hanging,
  • Arrestation,
  • cunning,
  • solicitude,
  • Privity,
  • possession,
  • hunch,
  • perceptiveness,
  • loathing,
  • Cognoscence,
  • mental ratio,
  • reliance,
  • apprehend,
  • representation,
  • hear,
  • scrupulousness,
  • disquietude,
  • pang,
  • regard,
  • fearful,
  • notice,
  • notion,
  • upset,
  • anxiety,
  • chariness,
  • wit,
  • antipathy,
  • archetype,
  • wobble,
  • suspect,
  • irresolution,
  • experience,
  • personal judgment,
  • worried,
  • anguish,
  • understanding,
  • agreement,
  • pinch,
  • leeriness,
  • pucker,
  • anxiety hysteria,
  • clever,
  • withdrawal,
  • canny,
  • restive,
  • consternation,
  • heebie-jeebies,
  • comprehend,
  • reading,
  • skepticism,
  • knowing,
  • enlist,
  • willies,
  • catch,
  • perspicacious,
  • hatred,
  • attention,
  • ken,
  • Deprehension,
  • mind,
  • sagacity,
  • pins and needles,
  • concept,
  • view,
  • sanity,
  • attitude,
  • revulsion,
  • nervous strain,
  • sharp,
  • impression,
  • consideration,
  • dislike,
  • feel,
  • qualm,
  • see,
  • presage,
  • chill,
  • sinking feeling,
  • judgement,
  • theory,
  • awareness,
  • uneasiness,
  • unease,
  • watchfulness,
  • grab,
  • opinion,
  • Abreption,
  • discover,
  • mite,
  • intimation,
  • insecure,
  • cognizant,
  • afraid,
  • Snatching,
  • detention,
  • committal,
  • concern,
  • discern,
  • fingerprint,
  • kidnapping,
  • abhorrence,
  • zeal,
  • catching,
  • disquiet,
  • prevision,
  • conception,
  • perceive,
  • memory trace,
  • clarify,
  • piercing,
  • restless,
  • Ademption,
  • concerned,
  • hopefulness,
  • dragnet,
  • mental image,
  • understand,
  • stew,
  • changeable,
  • detain,
  • queasiness,
  • providence,
  • bright,
  • sentiment,
  • cold feet,
  • sensitivity,
  • image,
  • mother wit,
  • erratic,
  • bashfulness,
  • Clear-headed,
  • clairvoyance,
  • discerning,
  • tremor,
  • fretfulness,
  • aversion,
  • unstable,
  • soupcon,
  • estimate,
  • nervous tension,
  • uneasy,
  • distaste,
  • Feeze,
  • reason,
  • bad vibes,
  • perspicaciousness,
  • detestation,
  • disbelief,
  • deglutition,
  • nerve,
  • reluctance,
  • savvy,
  • nervousness,
  • caliber,
  • arch,
  • nervous,
  • concernment,
  • apperception,
  • anxiety neurosis,
  • penetrating,
  • conceptualization,
  • trouble,
  • absorb,
  • identify,
  • sensibility,
  • vexation,
  • snatch,
  • boggle,
  • erudition,
  • quick-witted,
  • hysteria,
  • precognition,
  • distinguish,
  • reservation,
  • clue,
  • observation,
  • taking into custody,
  • tenseness,
  • malaise,
  • touch,
  • alive,
  • appreciation,
  • wariness,
  • haul,
  • capacity,
  • brainy,
  • unsureness,
  • understandingly,
  • hesitation,
  • acute,
  • statement,
  • doubt,
  • nerves,
  • consciousness,
  • interpret,
  • repugnance,
  • farsighted,
  • Butterflies,
  • prehension,
  • abstract idea,
  • execration,
  • handle,
  • speck,
  • second thoughts,
  • doubtfulness,
  • neckband,
  • self-doubt,
  • shaky,
  • perturbation,
  • thought,
  • coup,
  • unquietness,
  • timid,
  • subtraction,
  • affright,
  • mentality,
  • vigilance,
  • Prenotion,
  • thinking,
  • intellect,
  • qualms,
  • nimble-witted,
  • strain,
  • disheartenment,
  • round-up,
  • compunction,
  • uptake,
  • phobia,
  • stress,
  • dismay,
  • apt,
  • Arrestment,
  • rationality,
  • fancy,
  • hitch,
  • picture,
  • admit,
  • Argute,
  • conclusion,
  • abstraction,
  • bust,
  • care,
  • qualmishness,
  • collar,
  • reaction,
  • usurpation,
  • supposition,
  • unpeaceful,
  • funny feeling,
  • latch onto,
  • mistrustfulness,
  • discernment,
  • reflection,
  • restlessness,
  • exigency,
  • pull-in,
  • expropriation,
  • precaution,
  • unbelief,
  • worry,
  • check,
  • mental capacity,
  • regulative principle,
  • intelligent,
  • Intellectuality,
  • pickup,
  • fearfulness,
  • perception,
  • match,
  • Grabbing,
  • agita,
  • collywobbles,
  • Collaring,
  • calibre,
  • choker,
  • anxious,
  • unpredictable,
  • overanxiety,
  • knowledge,
  • sympathy,
  • recognition,
  • wisdom,
  • far-sightedness,
  • Prensation,
  • intelligence quotient,
  • recognize,
  • caption,
  • conscience,
  • shrewd,
  • approximation,
  • awe,
  • enter,
  • acquaintance,
  • funk,
  • trepidation,
  • book,
  • restraint,
  • question,
  • forethought,
  • imprisonment,
  • fear and trembling,
  • disinclination,
  • imprison,
  • horror,
  • Misdoubt,
  • gather,
  • realize,
  • fidgety,
  • leash,
  • tweak,
  • trauma,
  • think,
  • second thought,
  • awake,
  • dubiety,
  • twinge,
  • imbibe,
  • guess,
  • foresight,
  • detection,
  • unquiet,
  • Intellectualism,
  • cognition,
  • construction,
  • intelligence,
  • kindly,
  • tension,
  • astute,
  • quick,
  • unsound,
  • inkling,
  • insight,
  • taste,
  • Nervosity,
  • scepticism.

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:
    comfort, repose, contentment, placidness, consolation, excitement, solace, calm, hopefulness, discharge, security, easiness, hope, release, quiet, quietude, liberation, optimism, content, unconcern, relief, Misperception, anticipation, emancipation, ease.

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.