APPREHENSIVE Synonyms

• troubled emotionally and usually deeply

• physically disturbed or set in motion

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• feeling or showing worry or solicitude

• involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

• culpably involved

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• experiencing or showing fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• extremely distressing

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive