Another word for apprehensive
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Adjective
Filled with fear or terror
- Afraid.
- Afraid.
- In a state of panic.
- Frightened; panicky.
- Causing or capable of causing fear:
- Fearful; timid.
- Experiencing fear; frightened:
- Inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous.
- Indicating anxiety or fear:
- Struck by shock, terror, or amazement.
- Filled with fear; frightened:
- Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness in regard to something:
- Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement:
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Another word for apprehensive
Modifier
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- Not known or established; questionable:
- Not determined; undecided:
- Not having sure knowledge:
- Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried.
- Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety:
- Eagerly or earnestly desirous.
- Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
- simple past tense and past participle of worry
- Experiencing fear; frightened:
- Inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous.
- Indicating anxiety or fear:
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