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Cuse: At first, I was a little apprehensive about jumping into a genre that seemed really overdone and overwrought.

At first, the couple is apprehensive, if not downright appalled.

He then jumps off a building to go fight crime, leaving Stacy totally smitten—and more than a little apprehensive.

You find yourself reading, impressed, entertained, identifying, yet vaguely repulsed and apprehensive for him.

Interpreters, feeling apprehensive about our departure, left to rejoin their families.

I am becoming seriously apprehensive about my Lines of Communication and am forced to let you know the state of affairs.

At first he became defiant, but presently he grew apprehensive, and on taking his leave he made a foul accusation against you.

Cordelia, only, cast an apprehensive glance over her shoulder.

Our arrival dissipated the anxiety of the men, who began to be apprehensive we were taken or killed by some of the savages.

This would not have been of so much consequence, perhaps, but that Matava became apprehensive that they might desert.

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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apprehensive, such as: afraid, concerned, doubtful, jittery, jumpy, and suspicious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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