NSW Selective & Scholarship

Learn “Apprehensive”

A free exam-vocabulary guide with a precise meaning, natural context and a memory connection that makes the word easier to retrieve.

First featured

SelectiveDaily read

NSW Selective & Scholarship

Apprehensive

adjective/ap-ruh-HEN-siv/

Meaning

Feeling worried or nervous that something bad might happen.

In context

The whole team was apprehensive as they waited for the results.

Remember it

Apprehensive shares 'prehend' (grasp), your worry grasps you before an event.

Use it well

Use for nervous unease about the future, not sadness about the past.