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Look up: Apprehensive

  1. apprehensive
    grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future 
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  2. apprehensive
    [adj] - quick to understand 2. [adj] - in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Apprehensive
    the period during which normal rates of insurances for riot and civil commotion are no longer valid because disturbances are occurring or are thought impending Category: Insurance
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Apprehensive
    Ap`pre·hen'sive adjective [ Confer French appréhensif . See Apprehend .] 1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. « It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/109

  5. apprehensive
    1. 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.' (Hawthorne) ... 2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. 'A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by t...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. apprehensive
    discerning adjective quick to understand; `a kind and apprehensive friend`- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. apprehensive
    worried adjective mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; `apprehensive about her job`; `not used to a city and worried about small things`; `felt apprehensive about the consequences`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. apprehensive
    adjective in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; `apprehensive for one`s life`; `apprehensive of danger`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Apprehensive
    • (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable` fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. • (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension. • (a.) Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. • (a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. apprehensive
    apprehensive 1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy. 2. Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen. 3. Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend or to learn. 4. Perceptive; discerning (usually followed by of).
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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