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apprehensive

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Source Word

apprehensive

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv/

Adjective

obsolete

Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt. / (obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.

Japanese Meaning

（主に否定的なニュアンスで）不安や恐れ、疑念を抱えながら何かを予期する状態 / （古風な意味で）鋭敏で、学習が早く、知性を活かして理解する能力がある

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She felt apprehensive about the interview, wondering if she had prepared enough.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は面接について不安を感じており、自分が十分に準備しているかどうかを心配していた。

Sense（1）

Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.

This convinc'd me that there was no going on Shore for us in the Night upon that Coaſt, and how to venture on Shore in the Day was another Queſtion too; for to have fallen into the Hands of any of the Savages, had been as bad as to have fallen into the Hands of Lyons and Tygers; at leaſt we were equally apprehenſive of the Danger of it.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.

More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

more apprehensive

（ comparative ）

most apprehensive

（ superlative ）

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