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Anxious vs. Apprehensive — What's the Difference?

Anxious vs. Apprehensive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Anxious and Apprehensive

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Anxious

Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried.

Apprehensive

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
He felt apprehensive about going home

Anxious

Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety
Spent an anxious night waiting for the test results.

Apprehensive

Relating to perception or understanding.

Anxious

Usage Problem Eagerly or earnestly desirous.
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Apprehensive

Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.

Anxious

Nervous and worried.

Apprehensive

(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

Anxious

Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.
She was anxious to hear how her test results were.
I could tell she was anxious as she was biting her nails.

Apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.

Anxious

(of things) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
Anxious labor
There was an anxious wait before the results were revealed.

Apprehensive

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

Anxious

Earnestly desirous.
He is anxious to please, so you can count on him.
All the voters were anxious to hear the election result.

Apprehensive

Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk.

Anxious

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; - applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

Apprehensive

Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.

Anxious

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; - applied to things; as, anxious labor.
The sweet of life, from whichGod hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.

Apprehensive

Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.

Anxious

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform.

Apprehensive

Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.

Anxious

Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried;
Anxious parents
Anxious about her job
Not used to a city and anxious about small things
Felt apprehensive about the consequences

Apprehensive

Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.

Anxious

Eagerly desirous;
Anxious to see the new show at the museum
Dying to hear who won

Apprehensive

Quick to understand;
A kind and apprehensive friend

Anxious

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety;
Spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
Cast anxious glances behind her
Those nervous moments before takeoff
An unquiet mind

Apprehensive

Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried;
Anxious parents
Anxious about her job
Not used to a city and anxious about small things
Felt apprehensive about the consequences

Apprehensive

In fear or dread of possible evil or harm;
Apprehensive for one's life
Apprehensive of danger

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