Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #696 of 1319

apprehensive (adj.)

anxious about the future

Examples

  • Apprehensive about surgery.

Key rules

  • Apprehensive means anxious about something that may happen
  • Apprehensive about, apprehensive of
  • Apprehension is the noun

Common mistakes

  • He is apprehensive of the surgery → He is apprehensive about the surgery
💡 Tip: Describing medical worries // Describing the future // Describing nerves
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