SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
apprehensive
adjective
Worried that something unpleasant may happen.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
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The new performer was apprehensive about the audition.
On her first evening at a bookbinding class, Mira was apprehensive about joining people who already seemed to know one another.
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