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ap·pre·hen·sive

(ăp′rĭ-hĕn′sĭv)

adj.

1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy: was apprehensive before the surgery.

2. Archaic Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

ap′pre·hen′sive·ly adv.

ap′pre·hen′sive·ness n.

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Adv.

apprehensively - with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"

anxiously, uneasily

Translations

بِخَوف، بِقَلَق

bázlivěs obavami

bekymret

besorgt

aggódva

meî kvíîa

endişeylekorkarak

忧虑地

apprehensively

[ˌæprɪˈhensɪvlɪ] ADV → con aprensión, con temor

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

apprehensively

[ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪvli] adv [watch, wait, listen, look] → avec appréhension

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

apprehensively

adv → ängstlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

apprehensively

[ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪvlɪ] adv → apprensivamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

apprehend

(apriˈhend) verb

1. to arrest. The police apprehended the thief.

2. to understand.

ˌappreˈhension (-ʃən) noun

1. fear.

2. understanding.

ˌappreˈhensive (-siv) adjective

anxious; worried. an apprehensive expression.

ˌappreˈhensively adverb

ˌappreˈhensiveness noun

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His long body formed a letter `S.' I saw grandmother look apprehensively at grandfather.

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For some time we crouched there, Lop-Ear nervous and anxious to be gone, perpetually and apprehensively peering this way and that, and myself whimpering softly and sobbing.

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'I don't think there's hardly a chance of his really losing it, but carriers are under great temptation to pretend they lose things, no doubt,' said Mrs Nubbles apprehensively, in reference to the first point.

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They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed.

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Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as London, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in forestalling this too short visit.

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Of course I'll tell her." He glanced a trifle apprehensively toward the crowded ball-room.

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Was ever servant awaited so apprehensively? And then she came - at an anxious time, too, when her worth could be put to the proof at once - and from first to last she was a treasure.

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His eyes were constantly rolling apprehensively from side to side as now one and now another of the fierce pack chanced to wander near him, so that for the most of the time it was principally the whites that showed.

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But Bashti kept his word, and on the third day was too busy, with a more momentous problem, to deliver Bubu and Nena to the blind old man who apprehensively waited their coming.

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Their mother looked apprehensively in their direction.

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She looked apprehensively toward the folding-doors that shut us off from the front parlor.

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Even as he lifted the receiver to his ear, he looked around him half apprehensively. It seemed as though every moment he would hear the click of Mr.