Definition for Apprehensive:

• Quick to apprehend; fearful.

Synonyms for Apprehensive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • discerning.
  •anxious, fearful (adjective)
  • lily-livered,
  • concerned,
  • have a hunch,
  • shaky,
  • afraid,
  • jellyfish,
  • have funny feeling,
  • in a sweat,
  • disquieted,
  • hung up,
  • scaredy-cat,
  • have cold feet,
  • have stage fright,
  • worried sick,
  • alarmed,
  • mistrustful,
  • uneasy,
  • uncertain,
  • running scared,
  • in a dither,
  • troubled,
  • foreboding,
  • feel in bones,
  • frozen,
  • in a cold sweat,
  • weak,
  • doubtful,
  • biting nails,
  • get vibes,
  • stiff.
  •aware (adjective)
  • cognizant.
  •conversant (adjective)
  • percipient.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • weak-kneed,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • shrinking.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • cowardly,
  • phobic.
  •fidgety (adjective)
  • fidgety.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • horrified,
  • frightened,
  • paralyzed,
  • petrified,
  • terrified,
  • fearful,
  • unnerved,
  • rattled,
  • agitated,
  • chicken-livered,
  • fainthearted,
  • intimidated,
  • startled,
  • scared,
  • Harrowed.
  •humble (adjective)
  • self-conscious.

• n.

  •
  • fear.
  •apprehensive (noun)
  • perceptive.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • afeard,
  • sad.
  •
  • fearsome,
  • funky,
  • aghast.
  •aroused
  • excited.
  •Other relevant words:
  • emotional,
  • unstrung,
  • restless,
  • waver,
  • apprehensively,
  • conscious,
  • timorous,
  • anxiously,
  • distressed,
  • withdrawing,
  • sinking,
  • anxiety,
  • alive,
  • hesitate,
  • sense,
  • recreant,
  • diffidently,
  • hesitantly,
  • dismayed,
  • strained,
  • edgy,
  • care,
  • noncommittal,
  • diffident,
  • disturbed,
  • meek,
  • intelligent,
  • shakily,
  • sensitive,
  • solicitously,
  • apt,
  • guarded,
  • disquiet,
  • trouble,
  • hot-blooded,
  • bothered,
  • tremulous,
  • disconcerted,
  • sensitivity,
  • maybe,
  • perspicacious,
  • high-strung,
  • cautious,
  • affected,
  • excitable,
  • falter,
  • sensible,
  • provisionally,
  • sagacious,
  • hesitant,
  • discreet,
  • pusillanimous,
  • nervy,
  • procrastinate,
  • receiver,
  • hopeful,
  • dubiously,
  • opinion,
  • worriedly,
  • yellow,
  • overwrought,
  • taut,
  • omniscient,
  • comprehensive,
  • recipient,
  • loth,
  • volatile,
  • uneasiness,
  • tautly,
  • unquiet,
  • restrained,
  • intense,
  • touchy,
  • skittish,
  • reticent,
  • quick-tempered,
  • solicitude,
  • craven,
  • shrewd,
  • ware,
  • caring,
  • peevish,
  • awkwardly,
  • feverish,
  • loath,
  • itchy,
  • mousy,
  • Agitatedly,
  • vigilant,
  • bashfully,
  • agonizing,
  • Apprehending,
  • withdrawn,
  • testy,
  • waiting,
  • appercipient,
  • gutless,
  • reluctant,
  • on guard,
  • sentiment,
  • bashful,
  • flustered,
  • eager,
  • unsure,
  • fearfully,
  • distracted,
  • prickly,
  • suspension,
  • boggle,
  • disbelieving,
  • distrustful,
  • perhaps,
  • affection,
  • insightful,
  • wary,
  • flappable,
  • nervously,
  • skeptical,
  • emotion,
  • gawkily,
  • uneasily,
  • edge,
  • doubtfully,
  • coy,
  • unwilling,
  • chary,
  • distrustfully,
  • tentatively,
  • keyed-up,
  • flitter,
  • circumspect,
  • break,
  • quivering,
  • be fearful,
  • panic-stricken,
  • mercurial,
  • sceptical,
  • retiring,
  • passion,
  • trepid,
  • suspiciously,
  • timorously,
  • uncomfortably,
  • ruffled,
  • beneficiary,
  • understanding,
  • wise,
  • wound up,
  • self-effacing,
  • Comprehending,
  • prehensile,
  • overstrung,
  • heedful,
  • fretful,
  • queasy,
  • Suspecting,
  • mood,
  • poltroon,
  • misgiving,
  • all-knowing,
  • irascible,
  • ineptly,
  • in a stew,
  • considerate,
  • linger,
  • scary,
  • indecisive,
  • leery,
  • Anticipating,
  • sentient,
  • agonized,
  • apperceptive,
  • Qualmish,
  • irritable,
  • antsy,
  • suspense,
  • suffering,
  • unbelieving,
  • perturbed,
  • clumsily,
  • sheepish,
  • knowledgeable,
  • Expecting,
  • uncertainly,
  • restlessly,
  • worry about,
  • demur,
  • tensely,
  • strung up,
  • embarrassed,
  • vacillate,
  • cagey,
  • reserved,
  • solicitous,
  • coward,
  • addressee,
  • white-livered,
  • nerves on edge,
  • worked up,
  • zealous,
  • restive,
  • cognisant,
  • alarm,
  • tentative,
  • watchful,
  • distraught,
  • wild,
  • awkward,
  • hysterical,
  • uncomfortable,
  • crabbed,
  • prudent,
  • qualmy,
  • suspenseful,
  • discomfited,
  • observant,
  • chicken,
  • spooked,
  • timidly,
  • fluctuate,
  • highly strung,
  • modest,
  • introverted,
  • concernedly,
  • weave,
  • awake,
  • ready,
  • fretfully,
  • be afraid,
  • looking.

Paraphrases for Apprehensive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    worried, concerned, anxious, fearful, uneasy, afraid.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    scared, frightened, wary, troubled, nervous, worrying, unsettled.

Antonyms for Apprehensive:

• adj.

  • anxious, fearful
    composed, confident, unworried, collected, at ease, clear, Unfearful, undoubting, unafraid, certain, quiet, calm, easy-going, unquestionable, laid-back, happy, sure, cool, unsuspicious, definite.
  • Other antonyms:
    incautious, careless, unmindful, unaware, unwitting, insensible, unperceptive, fearless, unconscious, unperceiving, unheeding, oblivious, heedless, unwary, mindless, inattentive, unguarded, easy.