apprehension
Meaning of apprehension
noun
- anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
he felt sick with apprehension
she had some apprehensions about the filming
- understanding; grasp.
his first apprehension of such large issues
- the action of arresting someone.
they acted with intent to prevent lawful apprehension
late Middle English (in the sense ‘learning, acquisition of knowledge’): from late Latin apprehensio(n- ), from apprehendere ‘seize, grasp’ (see apprehend).
Information about apprehension
- It is a name.
- The plural form of apprehension is: apprehensions.
- Languages in which apprehension is used:
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Hyphenation of apprehension
ap-pre-hen-sion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- apprehension is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
apprehension synonyms
Meaning apprehensiveness:
Meaning understanding:
understanding, discernment, savvy
Meaning misgiving:
Meaning arrest:
Meaning a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome:
Meaning a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general:
Meaning an anxious awareness of danger:
Meaning the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems:
Meaning a feeling of anxiety or discomfort:
Meaning anxiety or discontent:
Meaning the quality or state of being nervous:
Meaning a feeling of worry or unease:
Meaning anxiety; worry:
Meaning a state of anxiety or nervous excitement:
Meaning the inability to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom:
Meaning feelings of nervousness:
Meaning mental or emotional strain:
Meaning a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen:
Meaning anxiety; mental uneasiness:
Meaning a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected:
Meaning sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour:
Meaning an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm:
Meaning a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience:
Meaning an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust:
Meaning extreme fear:
Meaning a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension:
Meaning an intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding:
Meaning a person's understanding:
Meaning the ability to understand something:
Meaning an act of becoming fully aware of something as a fact:
Meaning acknowledgement of the existence, validity, or legality of something:
Meaning recognition and enjoyment of the good qualities of someone or something:
Meaning awareness of something through the senses:
Meaning knowledge or perception of a situation or fact:
Meaning knowledge or awareness:
Meaning the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings:
Meaning the action or process of penetrating something:
Meaning the action of capturing or of being captured:
Meaning the action of capturing someone or something using force:
Meaning (of a disease) infectious:
Meaning the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody:
Meaning the state of being imprisoned; captivity:
Meaning the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment:
Meaning put a collar on (an animal):
Meaning catch (someone) doing something wrong:
Meaning fasten with a nail or nails:
Meaning a woman's chest as measured around her breasts:
Meaning break, split, or burst:
Meaning grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb:
Meaning a small cut or notch:
apprehension antonyms
Meaning the feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something:
Translation of apprehension
- Spanish: aprensión
- French: appréhension
- Italian: apprensione
- Portuguese: apreensão
Words that rhyme with apprehension
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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