All 4 Uses
apprehensive
in
Alas, Babylon
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- She glanced up, apprehensively, through the kitchen window.†
Chpt 1 *
- Randy walked toward the back door and the Henrys converged on him, their faces apprehensive.†
Chpt 7apprehensive = nervous or worried
- That morning, when Helen apprehensively opened the freezer, she found several hundred pounds of choice and carefully wrapped meat floating in a noxious sea of melted ice cream and liquified butter.†
Chpt 7
- The pedestrians he saw seemed apprehensive, hurrying along on missions private and vital, shoulders hunched, eyes directed dead ahead.†
Chpt 7apprehensive = nervous or worried
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)