Synonyms for Apprehensive:

• adj.

  •afraid (adjective)
  • more disheartened,
  • most daunted,
  • terrorstricken,
  • more faint-hearted,
  • most aroused,
  • scared death,
  • panicstricken,
  • dis-mayed,
  • more rattled,
  • dis mayed,
  • most spooked,
  • more terror stricken,
  • more terrorstricken,
  • dis tressed,
  • faint hearted,
  • more daunted,
  • most terrorstricken,
  • co-wed,
  • more trembling,
  • panic stricken,
  • more cowed,
  • more spooked,
  • more dismayed,
  • terror stricken,
  • more terror-stricken,
  • have cold feet,
  • dis-heartened,
  • most cowed,
  • most terror-stricken,
  • most dismayed,
  • more faint hearted,
  • most faint hearted,
  • most faint-hearted,
  • most terror stricken,
  • more aroused,
  • dis heartened,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most rattled,
  • most trembling,
  • co wed,
  • most disheartened.
  •all (adjective)
  • apprehensive,
  • discerning.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • un quiet,
  • un-quieter,
  • more clutched,
  • more unglued,
  • most hyper,
  • more bugged,
  • most unglued,
  • more butterflies,
  • shot pieces,
  • un-quiet,
  • un-glued,
  • in state,
  • dis quieted,
  • most disquieted,
  • most hacked,
  • most choked,
  • in tizzy,
  • most clutched,
  • taut,
  • sweating bullets,
  • more hacked,
  • more hyper,
  • more dreading,
  • un glued,
  • un quieter,
  • over wrought,
  • most dreading,
  • more disquieted,
  • most bugged,
  • wreckest,
  • dis-quieted,
  • un-quietest,
  • worried sick,
  • more choked,
  • un quietest,
  • most butterflies.
  •anxious, fearful (adjective)
  • jellyfish,
  • in a cold sweat,
  • hung up,
  • troubled,
  • shaky,
  • disquieted,
  • lily-livered,
  • concerned,
  • mistrustful,
  • stiff,
  • uneasy,
  • frozen,
  • uncertain,
  • doubtful,
  • feel in bones,
  • in a dither,
  • scaredy-cat,
  • running scared,
  • alarmed,
  • have a hunch,
  • get vibes,
  • have funny feeling,
  • in a sweat,
  • weak,
  • foreboding,
  • have stage fright,
  • biting nails.
  •aware (adjective)
  • plugged in,
  • know the score,
  • cognizant,
  • latched on,
  • wisest,
  • wise to,
  • know what's what,
  • wised up,
  • go-go,
  • on to,
  • in the picture,
  • up on,
  • in the know,
  • GOGO,
  • tuned in,
  • on the beam,
  • knowhow.
  •careful (adjective)
  • de-liberate,
  • de liberate,
  • provident,
  • more careful,
  • more precise,
  • ex-acting,
  • observant,
  • most thorough,
  • ex acting,
  • more selfdisciplined,
  • more thorough,
  • going great lengths,
  • self disciplined,
  • most selfdisciplined.
  •cognizant (adjective)
  • most knowledgeable,
  • most witting,
  • more witting.
  •conversant (adjective)
  • hep,
  • kept posted,
  • well-informed,
  • Hepper,
  • percipient.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • softer,
  • having the willies,
  • no guts,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • weak-kneed,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • lacking courage,
  • shrinking,
  • Cowhearted,
  • Chicken-hearted.
  •expectant (adjective)
  • more waiting,
  • pre-pared,
  • raring,
  • pre pared,
  • most waiting.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • cowardly,
  • phobic.
  •fidgety (adjective)
  • unrestful,
  • up the wall,
  • fidgety,
  • nervous wreck,
  • on pins and needles.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • horrified,
  • frightened,
  • paralyzed,
  • petrified,
  • terrified,
  • fearful,
  • unnerved,
  • rattled,
  • agitated,
  • chicken-livered,
  • fainthearted,
  • intimidated,
  • startled,
  • scared,
  • Harrowed.
  •humble (adjective)
  • self-conscious,
  • unambitious,
  • reverential,
  • supplicatory,
  • unpretentious.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • unrelaxed,
  • out of place.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • in-securest,
  • up air,
  • most unconfident,
  • more unpoised,
  • more unassured,
  • in securer,
  • more delphic,
  • in secure,
  • more questioning,
  • more unconfident,
  • most questioning,
  • in-securer,
  • most delphic,
  • in securest,
  • un confident,
  • touch go,
  • most unpoised,
  • up the air,
  • Unpoised,
  • un-assured,
  • un poised,
  • un-confident,
  • up in air,
  • most unassured,
  • in-secure,
  • un-poised,
  • un assured.
  •jealous (adjective)
  • grabby,
  • Possessory,
  • doubting.
  •jittery (adjective)
  • ex citable,
  • ex-citable,
  • excitable.
  •jumpy (adjective)
  • ex cited,
  • ex-cited.
  •knowing (adjective)
  • Sophic,
  • worldly wise,
  • tuned-in,
  • with-it.
  •mindful (adjective)
  • on job,
  • on ones toes,
  • know all answers,
  • be upon,
  • know ins outs,
  • most observative,
  • know answers,
  • on one toes,
  • more observative.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • more nervous,
  • more ruffled,
  • un strung,
  • most ruffled,
  • un-strung,
  • most flustered,
  • more flustered,
  • unstrung.
  •on edge (adjective)
  • most stressful,
  • nerve racking,
  • over anxious,
  • more stressful,
  • more overanxious,
  • un-nerved,
  • bundle nerves,
  • un nerved,
  • most overanxious,
  • more unnerved,
  • most unnerved,
  • nerveracking.
  •phobic (adjective)
  • dis-composed,
  • most discomposed,
  • more discomposed,
  • dis composed.
  •shy (adjective)
  • more introvert,
  • dis inclined,
  • dis-trustful,
  • most introvert,
  • un social,
  • un effusive,
  • un-responsive,
  • un-eager,
  • most unsocial,
  • more uneffusive,
  • recessive,
  • more uneager,
  • un assertive,
  • more unsocial,
  • most uneffusive,
  • un willing,
  • most uneager,
  • un-assertive,
  • more unassertive,
  • un-willing,
  • un responsive,
  • introvert,
  • un-social,
  • un eager,
  • dis trustful,
  • dis-inclined,
  • in-disposed,
  • in disposed,
  • un-effusive.
  •solicitous (adjective)
  • de-voted,
  • more appetent,
  • most caring,
  • de voted,
  • more caring,
  • most appetent.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • not born yesterday the lookout,
  • un-believing,
  • in-credulous,
  • in credulous,
  • most suspecting,
  • not born yesterday on lookout,
  • more suspecting,
  • un believing,
  • not born yesterday lookout.
  •tense (adjective)
  • more shot,
  • most shot,
  • most fluttery,
  • more fluttery.
  •timid (adjective)
  • most bullied,
  • having cold feet,
  • more browbeaten,
  • more badgered,
  • more milquetoast,
  • most browbeaten,
  • more bullied,
  • most milquetoast,
  • most badgered.
  •troubled (adjective)
  • more chagrined,
  • dis pleased,
  • most inconvenienced,
  • more harrowed,
  • miffed,
  • more beset,
  • most mortified,
  • most riled,
  • dis-pleased,
  • more riled,
  • more tortured,
  • most irked,
  • most pestered,
  • most beset,
  • be-set,
  • more exacerbated,
  • more pestered,
  • more mortified,
  • most tortured,
  • most aggravated,
  • more irked,
  • ex-acerbated,
  • most exacerbated,
  • more aggravated,
  • most plagued,
  • more plagued,
  • ex acerbated,
  • most chagrined,
  • most harrowed,
  • more inconvenienced.
  •uneasy (adjective)
  • most harassed,
  • more harassed,
  • more tormented,
  • most tormented,
  • un-stablest,
  • un easiest,
  • harassed,
  • pre carious,
  • un easier,
  • more palpitant,
  • most anguished,
  • un stablest,
  • most vexed,
  • un-easier,
  • un-easy,
  • un easy,
  • most palpitant,
  • more vexed,
  • pre-carious,
  • un-stabler,
  • more anguished,
  • un stabler,
  • un-stable,
  • un-easiest,
  • on qui vive,
  • un stable.
  •upset (adjective)
  • more unzipped,
  • more tumbled,
  • most unzipped,
  • over-turned,
  • up-set,
  • dis-concerted,
  • most tumbled,
  • more dragged,
  • dis ordered,
  • most amazed,
  • dis concerted,
  • more toppled,
  • most grieved,
  • un zipped,
  • most dragged,
  • dis-ordered,
  • over turned,
  • top-pled,
  • upsidedown,
  • top pled,
  • more grieved,
  • most toppled,
  • more amazed,
  • in disarray,
  • un-zipped.
  •uptight (adjective)
  • old fashioned,
  • oldfashioned,
  • on the defensive.
  •with it (adjective)
  • nower,
  • nowest.
  •worrisome (adjective)
  • more unnerving,
  • most unnerving,
  • un nerving,
  • in convenient,
  • dis-quieting,
  • up setting,
  • dis quieting,
  • un-nerving,
  • up-setting,
  • in-convenient,
  • more vexing,
  • most vexing.

• n.

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

• Other synonyms:

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

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.