Crossword-Solution: APPREHENSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apprehensive | a. | Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. |
| Apprehensive | a. | Knowing; conscious; cognizant. |
| Apprehensive | a. | Relating to the faculty of apprehension. |
| Apprehensive | a. | Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. |
| Apprehensive | a. | Sensible; feeling; perceptive. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “APPREHENSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Trepidatious | 1 answer |
| mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | 1 answer |
| Panicky | 9 answers |
| Nervy | 28 answers |
| Defensive | 42 answers |
| Afraid | 45 answers |
| Cowardly ___ | 45 answers |
| cognisant | 51 answers |
| Diffident | 55 answers |
| Anxious | 56 answers |
| ill at ease | 56 answers |
| timorous | 56 answers |
| Distrustful | 58 answers |
| Quivering | 58 answers |
| Windy. | 62 answers |
| Timid | 62 answers |
| concerned | 65 answers |
| Trembling | 66 answers |
| Nervous | 67 answers |
| Wary | 69 answers |
| Fearful | 72 answers |
| Cautious | 72 answers |
| worried | 72 answers |
| unhappy | 73 answers |
| aware | 75 answers |
| Uneasy | 77 answers |
| Jittery | 78 answers |
| Suspi-cious | 83 answers |
| Knowing | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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Sentences with APPREHENSIVE (5)
But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.
She was ashamed to think what an apprehensive drudge she must always have seemed to Fred, and she wondered why he had concerned himself about her at all.
What did make him act so?” “Deed I don’t know, Aunt Polly; cats always act so when they’re having a good time.” “They do, do they?” There was something in the tone that made Tom apprehensive.
Apart from any definite cause of dread which his past experience might have given him, he felt that native and original horror of the excellent Judge which is proper to a weak, delicate, and apprehensive character in the presence of massive strength.
Though outwardly calm and indifferent, Clayton was inwardly apprehensive and wrought up, for he feared for his wife’s safety at the hands of these ignorant, half-brutes into whose hands fate had so remorselessly thrown them.
Quotes with APPREHENSIVE (3)
Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?''It isn't that simple. I don't mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I'm no expert in the history of religions, and perhaps this is nothing new--do you happen to know if there was ever a belief in an... imperfect God?''What do you mean by imperfect?' Snow frowned. 'In a way all the gods of the old religions were imperfect, considered that the…
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone — crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions — one has to live with them, and we try.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.