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Apprehend vs. Apprehensive — What's the Difference?

Apprehend vs. Apprehensive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Apprehend and Apprehensive

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Apprehend

To take into custody; arrest
Apprehended the murderer.

Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

To grasp mentally; understand
"Science is the systematic method by which we apprehend what is true about the real world in which we live" (Richard Dawkins).

Apprehensive

Relating to perception or understanding.

Apprehend

To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive
"She began to look with her own eyes.
To see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life" (Kate Chopin).
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Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

(Archaic) To anticipate with worry or dread.

Apprehensive

(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.

Apprehend

To understand something.

Apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.

Apprehend

(transitive)

Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.

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.

Apprehend

To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.

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.

Apprehend

To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.

Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.

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.

Apprehend

To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.

Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

To seize or take (something); to take hold of.

Apprehensive

Quick to understand;
A kind and apprehensive friend

Apprehend

(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.

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

Apprehend

(obsolete)

Apprehensive

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

Apprehend

(intransitive)

Apprehend

To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.

Apprehend

To understand.

Apprehend

To be apprehensive; to fear.

Apprehend

To take or seize; to take hold of.
We have two hands to apprehend it.

Apprehend

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

Apprehend

To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.

Apprehend

To know or learn with certainty.
G. You are too much distrustful of my truth.E. Then you must give me leave to apprehendThe means and manner how.

Apprehend

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.

Apprehend

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

Apprehend

To be apprehensive; to fear.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Apprehend

Get the meaning of something;
Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?

Apprehend

Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals

Apprehend

Anticipate with dread or anxiety

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