Emotions
Synonyms for apprehensive
Synonyms for apprehensive: timorous and worried. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for apprehensive
Interchangeable with apprehensive in this sense
Audited under apprehensive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one apprehensive carries in that sense.
- timorousadjective, in the sense "anxious or fearful about something that may happen"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name apprehensive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- worriedworried is an adjective in the sense "mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc"
The first group is filed under apprehensive's own sense. The second reaches apprehensive from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
anxious or fearful about something that may happen
She grew apprehensive as the storm clouds gathered over the campsite.
The true synonym
timorous
Same sentence, swapped: She grew timorous as the storm clouds gathered over the campsite.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- sluggish
- hungry
- curious
Where apprehensive turns up in the game
apprehensive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play apprehensive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so apprehensive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. apprehensive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.