apprehensive


apprehensive (http://definr.com/apprehensive)

     adj 1: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"-
            Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: discerning]
     2: mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc;
        worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not
        used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt
        apprehensive about the consequences" [syn: anxious]
     3: in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for
        one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"