Apprehension

Noun

 * 1)  The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
 * 2)  The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
 * 3) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
 * 4) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
 * 5) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding.
 * 6) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

Adjectives for Apprehension
slumbering; uneasy; maternal; troublesome;nervous; wistful; sickening; sensitive; clammy; hazy; ghostly; trembling; frenzied;lingering; quivering; fearful; shivering fickle; rational; feigned; lively; vague acute; undisguised; suppressed; gnawing constant; religious; dismal; gloomy; ill-defined; cruel; despondent; remorseful; uncomfortable; foreboding; alarming; abject;distinct; unrelieved; sad; breathless; anguished; piteous; idle; grave; continuous professed; indignant;  daily;  delighted dread; warm; groundless; serious; vain ever-present; nameless; instant; goading painful; affected; supreme; right; puerile terrible; mortal; cowardly; tempered; utmost; murky; miraculous.

Verbs for Apprehension
allay—; arouse—; rise above—; becloud—; clear—; crystallize—; deny—; dull—;express—; free of—; ingrain—; look about with—; obtain—; profess—; rejoice in—;remove—; rest on—; sense with—; shake with—; strengthen—; torment by—; warrant—; wear out with—; —assails; — flames; —possesses; —seizes.

Thesaurus
abduction; agitation; alarm; all-overs; angst; anxiety; anxiety hysteria; anxiety neurosis; anxious bench; anxious concern; anxious seat; anxiousness; apprehensiveness; arrest; arrestation; arrestment; boding; bust; caliber; cankerworm of care; capacity; capture; care; catch; catching; clairvoyance; cliff-hanging; collaring; command; comprehension; conceit; concept; conception; conceptualization; concern; concernment; coup; deductive power; detention; diffidence; disquiet; disquietude; distress; distrust; distrustfulness; disturbance; doubt; doubtfulness; dragnet; dread; dubiety; dubiousness; esemplastic power; expectant waiting; faith; fancy; fear; forcible seizure; foreboding; forebodingness; foreknowledge; grab; grabbing; grasp; grip; half-belief; hold; idea; ideation; image; imago; impression; inquietude; integrative power; intellect; intellection; intellectual grasp; intellectual object; intellectual power; intellectualism; intellectuality; intelligence; intelligence quotient; kidnapping; knowledge; leeriness; malaise; mastery; memory-trace; mental age; mental capacity; mental grasp; mental image; mental impression; mental ratio; mentality; misdoubt; misgiving; mistrust; mistrustfulness; mother wit; nab; nabbing; native wit; nervous strain; nervous tension; nervousness; netting; notion; observation; opinion; overanxiety; panic; perception; perturbation; pessimism; picking up; pickup; pinch; pins and needles; possession; power grab; power of mind; precognition; prehension; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentiment; pucker; qualm; qualmishness; question; rationality; reasoning power; recept; reflection; reliance; representation; running in; sanity; savvy; scope of mind; scruple; scrupulousness; seizure; seizure of power; self-doubt; sense; sentiment; shadow of doubt; skepticalness; skepticism; snatch; snatching; solicitude; stew; strain; supposition; suspense; suspicion; suspiciousness; taking in; taking into custody; tension; theory; thinking power; thought; total skepticism; trouble; trust; uncertainty; understanding; unease; uneasiness; unquietness; upset; vexation; waiting; wariness; wisdom; wit; worry; zeal

Synonyms
alarm

Etymology
From apprehensio, compare with French appréhension. See apprehend.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: хващане
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Simplified Chinese:


 * Bulgarian:, задържане
 * Dutch:, , vastgrijpen
 * Finnish: pidättäminen,
 * Russian:


 * Serbo-Croatian: arest, hapšenje
 * Simplified Chinese:
 * Spanish: arresto


 * Bulgarian: схващане,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian:, осмысление
 * Serbo-Croatian: poimanje, shvaćanje


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, , gezichtspunt,


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: опасение
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:


 * Serbo-Croatian: strepnja
 * Simplified Chinese:, ,
 * Spanish: aprensión