apprehensive

  • (s) quick to understand
    • "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    discerning,
  • (s) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
    • apprehensive about her job
    • not used to a city and worried about small things
    • felt apprehensive about the consequences
    worried,
  • (s) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
    • apprehensive for one's life
    • apprehensive of danger

Synonyms

discerning worried

Words of close approximity

apprehension
apprehensively apprehensiveness