apprehensiveadjective
uk/ˌæp.rɪˈhen.sɪv/us/ˌæp.rəˈhen.sɪv/feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen:
I'm very apprehensive about tomorrow's meeting.
I've invited a lot of people to the party, but I'm a little apprehensive that no one will come.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Anxious and worried
- (all) hot and bothered idiom
- -racked
- a bundle of nerves idiom
- aflutter
- agitate
- alarmed
- anxious
- awkward
- demented
- dread
- get in a sweat idiom
- grim
- harassed
- haunted
- have a cow idiom
- prey on sth
- rattled
- rest easy idiom
- restive
- restless
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apprehensively
adverb uk/ˌæp.rɪˈhen.sɪv.li/us/ˌæp.rəˈhen.sɪv.li/
They looked at each other apprehensively.