Synonyms for Apprehension
ˌæp rɪˈhɛn ʃənap·pre·hen·sion

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1. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

2. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

3. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

4. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

5. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

6. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

7. apprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   inapprehension

8. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   alarm

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1. apprehension

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadnoun

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, pinch, savvy, collar, misgiving, dread, arrest, taking into custody, understanding, catch, apprehensiveness, discernment

2. understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvynoun

   the cognitive condition of someone who understands

   "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

   Synonyms:
   sympathy, judgement, intellect, collar, perceptiveness, dread, discernment, appreciation, misgiving, taste, catch, sagaciousness, judgment, pinch, discretion, savvy, reason, apprehension, understanding, agreement, taking into custody, arrest, sagacity, apprehensiveness

3. apprehension, misgivingnoun

   painful expectation

   Synonyms:
   savvy, mistrust, suspicion, scruple, dread, misgiving, catch, arrest, pinch, distrust, qualm, apprehension, understanding, taking into custody, discernment, collar, apprehensiveness

4. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custodynoun

   the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

   "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, hint, touch, understanding, mite, jot, stoppage, apprehension, catch, halt, shoe collar, dog collar, snap, match, snatch, tinge, soupcon, exigency, speck, neckband, collar, taking into custody, leash, stop, discernment, misgiving, emergency, arrest, tweak, pinch, stay, apprehensiveness, dread, savvy, gimmick, grab, haul, choker, check

Matched Categories

1. • Expectation
   • Fearfulness

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1. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, arrest

2. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   understanding, intellect, intelligence, intellection, mind, reason

3. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   conception, IMAGINATION, the mind's eye

4. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, discernment, perception, sense

5. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   opinion, belief, fancy, supposition, judgment, sentiment, idea, notion

6. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   fear, dread, distrust, suspicion, anxiety, solicitude, care, concern, misgiving, alarm, worry, disquiet, uneasiness, vexation

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1. apprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, arrest, opinion, conception, belief, notion, understanding, fear, dread, anxiety, solicitude, alarm

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1. List of paraphrases for "apprehension":

   fear, arrest, foreboding, detention, concern, trepidation, capture, anxiety, apprehend

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How to use Apprehension in a sentence?

1. Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman:

   We are working closely with our Mexican counterparts to confront rising border apprehension numbers -- specifically a 38 percent increase in families this month alone -- directly and to ensure that those with legitimate claims have access to appropriate protections.

2. White House:

   Under the president’s budget, key federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service will have the resources they need to fight violent crime, including through fugitive apprehension and enforcement operations, the budget also ensures U.S. attorneys have the necessary support to prosecute violent criminals.

3. Pat James:

   Actually, I didn’t have apprehension so much about the COVID as I did about some other issues, like terrorism, i had a little trepidation last night. But we’re both vaccinated. When we got into a crowd, we wore our masks. I just wish people would get vaccinated, so this would end.

4. Magnus Conteh:

   At the time of the outbreak, there was a lot of fear, and apprehension, and denial of the existence of Ebola.

5. Erik Pevernagie:

   Fear can be passed on to others and, similar to fear of flying, its smell can be sensed by people in outlandish places or fussy situations. Its apprehension may be nasal or actuated through our brain, our memory or the sensorial spread, and not at the least through a sixth sense. (One could still feel the smell of fear )