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Meanings of apprehensiveness in English

Portuguese
medo
Catalan
recel
Spanish
temor

Fearful expectation or anticipation.

medo
Synonyms
Examples for "dread"
Examples for "dread"
1
Then I finally ask the question to which I dread the answer.
Angelfall
2
I've certainly never seen an interviewee approach the photoshoot with greater dread.
The Guardian
3
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
4
I was struck with dread; the Queen then appeared in the balcony.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
5
Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
1
Take Cork, city of past and future floods and much citizen apprehension.
The Irish Times
2
It makes me shudder; it freezes me; it fills me with apprehension.
The Last Woman
3
Brad sensed the apprehension in the others that he felt in himself.
The Universe — or Nothing
4
She welcomed the caseload review but said there was apprehension among members.
Radio NZ
5
There was no reason for the increased apprehension on this particular morning.
Watch them die
Usage of apprehensiveness in English
1
But something about their body language at first suggested apprehensiveness to Annja.
Provenance
2
The apprehensiveness became a mania which controlled them even in their sleep.
The Son of the Wolf
3
There was a quick apprehensiveness in her tone as she caught his hand.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
4
Anger and apprehensiveness were working twin leverage on the Comas executive.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
5
Had I but as much creative genius as I have apprehensiveness!'
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
6
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the apprehensiveness of women is quite gratuitous.
The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 2
7
The bridegroom's mood was entirely different from his sombre apprehensiveness of the previous evening.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
8
Carlisle looked at her mother, and there were both apprehensiveness and dependence in her look.
V. V.'s Eyes
9
A satisfied interior soon dispelled all our previous apprehensiveness.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
10
But his hugeness could not quite overcome his apprehensiveness.
The Sea-Wolf
11
The abbot licked his dry lips; there was a wondering sort of apprehensiveness in his eyes.
The Dawn of All
12
With side-glances she surveyed his countenance wonderingly; in his expression true distress was mingled with apprehensiveness.
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
13
Edwin said aloud quickly, from an exaggerated apprehensiveness lest she should be rating him too high-
Clayhanger
14
He is describing the sort of nail-biting apprehensiveness which gripped most of us in here these past weeks.
The Irish Times
15
Then he sat down himself, took a long pull at his cocoa, and waited with a certain apprehensiveness.
None Other Gods
16
Wrenching her mind away from apprehensiveness she moved quickly to the kitchen door and into the dimly-lighted dowdy passage-way.
Nocturne
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Apprehensiveness through the time