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apprehensive

adjective/ɐ.pɾi.ẽˈsi.vu/medium

a·pre·en·si·vo

Definition

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
The parents were apprehensive about their son's health.
I felt apprehensive before the job interview.
Common collocations
to be apprehensiveto feel apprehensivean apprehensive lookapprehensive about

Etymology

Do latim 'apprehensivus', de 'apprehendere' ('apreender, capturar').

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