Apprehensive is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.
You can make 884 anagrams from letters in apprehensive (aeeehinpprsv).
First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word apprehēnsīvus. See apprehensible, -
At 31 in 1980, I was apprehensive about being a boss, a little neurotic even.
You find yourself reading, impressed, entertained, identifying, yet vaguely repulsed and apprehensive for him.
Some people would have been apprehensive of what might pass between her and Mrs. Greme.
They are apprehensive that Mr. Lovelace will be there with design to come home with me.
At first everyone was apprehensive about it, but I said to her, “You sound like you were influenced by Dinah Washington.”
At first, the couple is apprehensive, if not downright appalled.
I received the deputation with a trembling and apprehensive heart.
And from this examination he was satisfied of one fact which made him uneasy, apprehensive.
So when it comes to creating a Palestinians state right next door, Israelis are apprehensive.
He was worried and apprehensive, yet the camp lured his mate and she was loath to depart.
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